Inquiry Process Model


 

 

 
 
 

 

Connect

 
  • Connect to self, previous knowledge
  • Gain background and context
  • Observe, experience

 

 

 

 

Reflect

  • Reflect on own learning
  • Ask new questions

 

 

 

Wonder

  • Develop questions
  • Make predictions, hypothesis

 

  

 

 

Stripling Model of Inquiry

 

  

Express

  • Apply understandings to a new context, new situation
  • Express new ideas to share learning with others

 

 

 

Investigate

  • Find and evaluate information to answer questions, test hypotheses
  • Think about information to illuminate new questions and hypotheses 
 

Construct

 
  • Construct new understandings connected to previous knowledge
  • Draw conclusions about questions and hypotheses

 

 
 
 
 

 

From the article "Supporting Inquiry Learning" by Barbara Stripling