Teachers guide students in the development of rich questions.
Students will begin to develop the habit of being systematic and use a process of making.
Important to scaffold students and work within their “zone of proximal development”
Teachers should also be “flexible” and remember that inquiry based learning is active learning.
Students should not be deterred from coming up with their own problems and questions, as well as the procedures to explore them.
As Owens, Hester and Teale, state, “the most successful inquiry projects emerge from topics that are of real interest to the students.”