Answer:
Good science education requires both learning scientific concepts and developing scientific thinking skills.
Inquiry is an approach to learning that involves a process of exploring the natural or material world, and that leads to asking questions, making discoveries, and testing those discoveries in the search for new understanding.
Inquiry, as it relates to science education, should mirror as closely as possible the enterprise of doing real science.
The inquiry process:
is driven by one’s own curiosity, wonder, interest, or passion to understand an observation or to solve a problem.
The process begins :
when the learner notices something that intrigues, surprises, or stimulates a question—something that is new, or something that may not make sense in relationship to the learner's previous experience or current understanding.
The next step is to take action—through continued observing, raising questions, making predictions, testing hypotheses, and creating conceptual models.
The learner must find her or his own pathway through this process. It is rarely a linear progression, but rather more of a back-and-forth, or cyclical, series of events.
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