4.4 Student Inquiry
Auhentic, relevant and meaningful student inquiry
Library Learning Commons
Student Inquiry across all Subject Areas
Investigative
Students explore, search, quest, research, pursue, predict and compare.
Social
Students learn through social interaction.
Meaningful
Parent Engagement Night - Student Inquiry
Professional Development Day - A Focus on Inquiry in the Library Learning Commons
Hot Docs
Math Department
Cross-Curricular Crime Scene Investigation (Innovation Grant): 2016
- collaboration between mathematics and English departments
- culminating performance task that brings the real world into the math class
- covers the 3 main strands in grade 10 applied and academic math: quadratic relations, trigonometry, analytic geometry/linear relations
- we hope to extend this activity to other departments in our school
Physical Education Department
Self-Defense Program
CPR
The 2-week course for grade 9 and 10 students involves the four R's: risk, recognize, react, rescuscitate. Students work in pairs or in teams of four to problem-solve for different emergency situations. The Physical Education department liaised with the ACT Foundation to organize and provide equipment for the program, which includes an AED (automated external defibrillator).
Art Department
International Women's Day
English Department
OneNote and Collaborative Inquiry
In my classroom we have been learning through collaborative inquiry: placing students’ questions, ideas and observations at the center of the learning experience. Through inquiry I want to build opportunities for students to think for themselves, to reason, to think critically, to build knowledge and to work with others. I am working to make thinking visible in my classroom, through a variety of inquiry activities. We work through a gradual release model of inquiry as students develop competencies in our learning goals.
An example of the collaborative inquiry pictured above involved a jigsaw activity where students were assigned a minor character from the Julius Caesar conspiracy. They had to ascertain: what their motivation for the murder was, why they shouldn’t have done it and what they would have said if Shakespeare wrote them a line to say as they stabbed Caesar. They were then split into three groups, where they planned and acted out the new murder scene.