Inquiry Based Learning

Inquiry-Based Learning is extremely important when relating it to Agricultural Education. You can implement this to all forms of Ag Ed. From the reading, we learn that inquiry-based learning starts with a problem or a specific type of information. Once the information is presented students dive deeper into the content and look at all the different parts that then help to create questions. Once those questions are addressed by students and the instructor is finished asking questions, students create. This is taking all that information previously gained and then apply to it.

There are so many different types of lessons that inquiry-based learning can be applied too. The best examples that come immediately to my head are problems that students need to find a solution too. An idea is introduced to students, information is gathered, questions are answered and results are made. Now fit that into a problem such as climate change, disease in your greenhouse, or even solving individual pollution problems. It was so easy to come up with these ideas because these are examples that I have experienced in the classroom.

I found this cool chart that puts all of this together. This chart was developed by Dr. Terry from the University of Indiana. This breaks down the four phases of inquiry-based learning.