How do you ensure that your class is engaging with inquiry learning?

Motivated students will take an active role in their learning by:

- building on prior knowledge and asking questions

- finding information from a variety of sources

- making connections between ideas, learning domains and experiences

- reflecting on, and taking action related to, their understandings.

Thinking Tools for the Inquiry Classroom provides a rich resource of activity starters, graphic organisers, thinking processes and techniques to support inquiry learning in the middle years classroom.

Each tool is linked to a key stage of inquiry and described in context. When should you use it? How does it work in a real classroom? With guidance on inquiry stages, multiple intelligences and the critical and creative thinking approaches students use, this book makes it easy for you to adapt and extend these clever tools in your own classroom.

An invaluable source of inspiration and practical support, Thinking Tools for the Inquiry Classroom helps you to delve deeper into your students' inquiry journey.