What is science inquiry?
Inquiry, in general, is the process of generating questions, inventing definitions and metaphors, separating facts from inferences and forming generalizations. Inquiry is common in all subject matter. Science inquiry can be defined as the search for information that will allow us to build satisfactory explanations for questions about the natural world.Scientists use logical and creative thinking to ask questions about the natural world, collect data and build theoretical models with explanatory power to describe and predict physical phenomena. What is inquiry-based learning? In the same way that inquiry in science aims to answer scientists’ questions, inquiry-based learning aims to answer students’ questions. Research has shown that when instruction is designed to engage students in the search of answers to questions that are relevant and interesting to them, their learning improves. All the more, the answers that we all carry in our heads are largely meaningless unless we know the que
