What is Inquiry-based learning and how is it used in the traveling trunk?
The lessons in the unit, A Lasting Impression, can be used with an inquiry-based approach to help students learn. By posing basic questions, students begin to search for answers in their own experiences and by consulting research sources. Inquiry-based learning has been used successfully in museum education to assist learners to make connections between visual objects and the visitor’s own experiences. Dr. Mary Erickson from ArtsEdNet suggests that the inquiry-based approach enhances learning because: its puts control and direction in the hands of the learner, it provides focus for comparison and generalization, it guides investigation into the unknown, and it stimulates imagination about possibilities.
