WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.070 So there's a few reasons why as educators, we really should be adding 00:00:05.070 --> 00:00:11.660 inquiry based learning as a strategy to our quiver of teaching strategies. 00:00:12.200 --> 00:00:16.070 And probably the one that I think is the most important is the 00:00:16.070 --> 00:00:20.510 fact that inquiry based learning improves student motivation. 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:25.610 We're all talking about how demotivated students are, how they can't focus, 00:00:25.610 --> 00:00:27.290 how they're not interested in anything. 00:00:27.740 --> 00:00:32.150 And yet we have a strategy called inquiry based learning that is probably one 00:00:32.150 --> 00:00:36.560 of the best ways to engage students. 00:00:37.220 --> 00:00:44.360 Now inquiry based learning has been linked to increase motivation, particularly in 00:00:44.360 --> 00:00:48.280 subjects like mathematics and science. 00:00:48.980 --> 00:00:53.120 The research indicates that the specific benefits of inquiry based learning and 00:00:53.120 --> 00:00:59.390 mathematics include things like improved student motivation and understanding. 00:01:00.050 --> 00:01:05.810 Learning has to be lived and applied to real world applications. 00:01:06.230 --> 00:01:11.150 That's why things like loose parts and manipulatives that we use in our 00:01:11.150 --> 00:01:13.280 classrooms in early childhood settings 00:01:13.310 --> 00:01:19.190 and even in primary school settings are so important so that students can really make 00:01:19.190 --> 00:01:23.270 that learning concrete and so that they can have a hands on approach and so that 00:01:23.270 --> 00:01:31.340 they can see and feel, and experience how learning is transferable and how learning 00:01:31.340 --> 00:01:33.479 is valid in every area of their lives. 00:01:34.180 --> 00:01:38.360 Now a study undertaken by the center of education research in Sydney 00:01:38.630 --> 00:01:45.550 actually shows that a major factor in student engagement often is 00:01:45.550 --> 00:01:51.400 curriculum content being relevant to their lives outside of the classroom. 00:01:51.910 --> 00:01:56.109 So if children can't connect that what they learning is actually relevant 00:01:56.109 --> 00:01:59.889 to them outside the classroom, they're not going to be engaged. 00:02:00.160 --> 00:02:02.800 So often when you're teaching a concept, I'll say, well, when 00:02:02.800 --> 00:02:04.389 am I ever going to use this? 00:02:04.539 --> 00:02:05.680 Maybe going to learn this again? 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:07.150 That's not, it's no use to me. 00:02:07.930 --> 00:02:09.250 They not going to be engaged. 00:02:09.550 --> 00:02:14.800 So we, as educators have to, it is absolutely imperative that we find ways 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:19.690 where we can help students connect what it is that we're teaching, and what they're 00:02:19.690 --> 00:02:25.690 learning to their own life experience to real world contexts for them. 00:02:25.690 --> 00:02:31.750 Now two key ways that we can enhance this real world relevance in our lessons are 00:02:31.770 --> 00:02:37.590 inquiry based learning and also localizing our curriculum to provide authentic 00:02:37.590 --> 00:02:39.450 context for teaching and learning. 00:02:40.140 --> 00:02:42.550 So things like making it real 00:02:42.570 --> 00:02:45.840 so for example, if you had a school garden. 00:02:46.140 --> 00:02:49.560 Where you're growing some salads or vegetables is actually when 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:53.220 you go to tend to that garden and your harvest, those fruits and 00:02:53.220 --> 00:02:54.810 vegetables or herbs or whatever. 00:02:55.110 --> 00:02:57.480 And then you actually have a cooking experience and you cook 00:02:57.480 --> 00:02:58.980 them and then the students eat them. 00:02:59.579 --> 00:03:05.370 That's this whole kind of experience where it's authentic and it's, 00:03:05.550 --> 00:03:08.519 it's outside of just the classroom. 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:13.079 And even in high schools, they found that if they're teaching mathematical 00:03:13.079 --> 00:03:17.730 concepts for example, but they then go and they use them in real life situations, 00:03:17.730 --> 00:03:23.920 in a work environment , or in industry that makes things a whole lot more 00:03:24.190 --> 00:03:28.209 real for children and they can then see the connection between what they're 00:03:28.209 --> 00:03:32.920 actually learning in school and how they can apply it in real world situations. 00:03:32.970 --> 00:03:36.180 And when students see that things are relevant and applicable to their 00:03:36.180 --> 00:03:38.580 lives, and they are more engaged. 00:03:39.660 --> 00:03:45.450 Now another benefit of inquiry based learning that we should absolutely always 00:03:45.510 --> 00:03:47.700 keep in mind and never to be overlooked, 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:51.600 and that is the promotion of critical thinking and problem solving. 00:03:52.209 --> 00:03:57.070 By engaging in inquiry students are enhancing their problem, solving 00:03:57.070 --> 00:03:59.829 abilities, their critical thinking skills. 00:04:00.190 --> 00:04:05.019 They learn to approach problems from multiple angles and develop well 00:04:05.050 --> 00:04:07.990 developed or well supported conclusions. 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:11.680 Now I'm not just sucking the stuff out of my thumb. 00:04:12.279 --> 00:04:15.399 I'm giving you these things that have come from real peer reviewed studies, 00:04:15.399 --> 00:04:18.399 and I'll put the links to all of this in the show notes so that you can 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:20.229 read up and see this for yourself. 00:04:21.640 --> 00:04:26.210 When you're giving children real problems that they should solve., using hands 00:04:26.210 --> 00:04:34.700 on equipment and manipulatives, this becomes a lot less boring than us as 00:04:34.700 --> 00:04:38.930 educators standing in the front of the classroom, explaining something and then 00:04:38.930 --> 00:04:40.850 giving them a worksheet to fill out. 00:04:41.150 --> 00:04:43.190 It's very robotic to do it that way. 00:04:43.250 --> 00:04:44.900 Not even to mention boring. 00:04:44.930 --> 00:04:48.590 I don't know about you, but as a teacher, I find that boring. 00:04:48.710 --> 00:04:50.750 It's boring to teach in that way. 00:04:51.290 --> 00:04:55.280 So we have to promote critical thinking. 00:04:55.670 --> 00:05:02.390 You know, our world today can be so blinkered, you know, we have people 00:05:02.420 --> 00:05:05.870 all the time telling us how to think, what we can do, what we can't do, 00:05:05.870 --> 00:05:09.380 what's right, what's wrong, this is how we must follow this is the path. 00:05:09.770 --> 00:05:11.780 What absolute nonsense. 00:05:12.950 --> 00:05:16.940 Our job as educators is not to get children just to regurgitate 00:05:16.940 --> 00:05:18.440 something that we are teaching. 00:05:18.770 --> 00:05:25.040 It is to get kids questioning is to get them to have a look at information that 00:05:25.040 --> 00:05:30.050 we provide them with and then for them to see what is this actually factually true? 00:05:30.110 --> 00:05:31.190 Is there bias? 00:05:31.310 --> 00:05:33.620 Are there other ways I can solve this problem? 00:05:33.890 --> 00:05:36.260 Is there another way I can think about this. 00:05:36.740 --> 00:05:38.510 That's real education. 00:05:38.670 --> 00:05:42.480 Children, students have to do the work. 00:05:42.870 --> 00:05:44.730 They have to do the thinking. 00:05:45.210 --> 00:05:46.080 Not us. 00:05:46.380 --> 00:05:49.350 Our job is just to give him the information and then teach 00:05:49.350 --> 00:05:51.000 them how they go further. 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.359 Now the other thing is, and this is what I love about inquiry-based 00:05:54.420 --> 00:06:00.570 learning is that also encourages a life long love of learning. 00:06:01.260 --> 00:06:06.270 John Dewey, an educational reformer emphasize the importance of active 00:06:06.300 --> 00:06:11.430 learning stating that education is not preparation for life. 00:06:11.849 --> 00:06:14.400 Education is life itself. 00:06:14.969 --> 00:06:16.050 I'm going to say that again. 00:06:16.469 --> 00:06:22.560 John Dewey said that education is not preparation for life. 00:06:23.489 --> 00:06:24.599 Education. 00:06:25.290 --> 00:06:26.880 Is life itself. 00:06:26.880 --> 00:06:30.660 So inquiry based learning instills this love of learning that 00:06:30.660 --> 00:06:32.760 extends beyond the classroom. 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:37.530 We've got to give another thing that John Dewey said was give the pupil 00:06:37.530 --> 00:06:40.410 something to do, not something to learn. 00:06:40.770 --> 00:06:46.170 And the doing is of such a nature, as to demand thinking. 00:06:46.890 --> 00:06:50.580 That the doing is learning itself. 00:06:50.880 --> 00:06:54.930 That learning naturally results from the doing. 00:06:55.640 --> 00:06:59.590 You know, children are born naturally curious. 00:07:00.080 --> 00:07:03.740 And there's so many researchers and educational leaders in 00:07:03.740 --> 00:07:07.370 educational thinking that have come up and said, well, you know what? 00:07:07.460 --> 00:07:13.630 As schools and educators, we've actually schooled love of learning out of children. 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:19.480 And it's because I think we've taken the doing out of learning. 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:20.260 All of us. 00:07:20.290 --> 00:07:22.420 If you think about the way you learn best. 00:07:22.450 --> 00:07:25.630 Yes, there are, people are learning different ways, but we learn by 00:07:25.630 --> 00:07:31.220 doing, you don't learn how to poach an egg just by watching a video. 00:07:31.520 --> 00:07:35.930 Or by reading about it, you learn how to poach an egg by doing it. 00:07:36.350 --> 00:07:39.590 And if you mess up, you think, oh, golly, what did I do wrong? 00:07:39.860 --> 00:07:43.310 And you repeat it and you try it again until you can improve 00:07:43.310 --> 00:07:44.540 on how you poach your egg. 00:07:45.020 --> 00:07:47.450 This is just a simple example of what it is, but. 00:07:48.440 --> 00:07:49.970 When you're actually doing it. 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:54.110 It encourages that love for lifelong learning and that's 00:07:54.110 --> 00:07:55.850 our job as well as educators. 00:07:56.750 --> 00:07:58.280 That should be our objective. 00:07:58.310 --> 00:08:02.450 Every day when we entered the classroom is how can I get these kids? 00:08:02.810 --> 00:08:04.190 To love learning. 00:08:04.500 --> 00:08:07.920 Inquiry based learning also builds creativity. 00:08:08.670 --> 00:08:09.720 Through inquiry. 00:08:09.810 --> 00:08:13.350 Students are encouraged to think creatively. 00:08:14.190 --> 00:08:20.190 To explore multiple solutions and to come up with new and original thinking. 00:08:20.190 --> 00:08:22.830 We need innovators in the future. 00:08:23.550 --> 00:08:26.070 The world is changing so fast. 00:08:26.610 --> 00:08:32.190 It would be remiss of us not to help children develop critical thinking 00:08:32.190 --> 00:08:37.590 skills, creative thinking skills, original thinking, because they are 00:08:37.590 --> 00:08:39.510 going to need that for the future. 00:08:39.510 --> 00:08:44.100 So inquiry based learning is the strategy that helps children prepare 00:08:44.100 --> 00:08:49.260 for the future, prepares them for original thought and innovation. 00:08:50.160 --> 00:08:55.710 Inquiry based learning also helps children to demonstrate the 00:08:55.710 --> 00:08:58.200 interconnectedness in knowledge. 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:03.180 It helps students make those connections between different subject areas. 00:09:03.990 --> 00:09:04.530 It 00:09:05.090 --> 00:09:09.290 enhances their overall understanding and appreciation 00:09:09.350 --> 00:09:12.930 of how knowledge is interrelated. 00:09:13.980 --> 00:09:17.400 Now, if you listen to episode 61, which is last week's episode with 00:09:17.400 --> 00:09:20.840 Tonya Gilchrist spoke exactly of this. 00:09:21.500 --> 00:09:26.870 That teaching subjects in silos is really an archaic way of teaching. 00:09:27.350 --> 00:09:29.210 It benefits no one. 00:09:29.900 --> 00:09:34.430 It takes up more teacher time, and children can't my connections 00:09:34.460 --> 00:09:36.170 to other subject areas. 00:09:36.680 --> 00:09:41.900 Therefore, they don't see the relevance to themselves, and so they disengage. 00:09:42.530 --> 00:09:45.020 Now what I want to say here is that. 00:09:45.590 --> 00:09:48.230 I think this is probably an appropriate time just to say, because I think 00:09:48.230 --> 00:09:51.470 that many of you are not going to say, oh, but you know, we can't 00:09:51.470 --> 00:09:53.030 just do inquiry based learning. 00:09:53.300 --> 00:09:57.050 Well, nobody's saying that you must only do inquiry based learning. 00:09:57.500 --> 00:10:02.750 Inquiry-based learning is just one of the strategies that we as educators have 00:10:03.110 --> 00:10:05.420 in our quiver of strategies that you 00:10:05.420 --> 00:10:11.940 choose a strategy to best align with what it is that you want to teach children. 00:10:11.940 --> 00:10:14.400 If you're teaching something brand new. 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:19.390 A new skill, new new knowledge, um, how to read. 00:10:19.690 --> 00:10:22.900 The sounds and the alphabet you're going to use explicit instruction. 00:10:23.560 --> 00:10:28.090 But you also can't just use explicit instruction. 00:10:28.420 --> 00:10:32.950 Because explicit instruction is the foundation of learning. 00:10:33.070 --> 00:10:34.780 It's the first step in learning. 00:10:34.780 --> 00:10:36.490 It's giving them the basics. 00:10:36.570 --> 00:10:39.270 The understanding and the knowledge that you want to teach them. 00:10:39.810 --> 00:10:44.040 The level up from that has when you try to get children to understand, to 00:10:44.040 --> 00:10:47.430 make connections, to ask questions, that's inquiry based learning. 00:10:47.430 --> 00:10:49.530 So then you're going to pull that strategy out. 00:10:50.040 --> 00:10:53.850 When you're teaching deeper concepts where you want to connect things 00:10:53.850 --> 00:10:55.440 from one subject to the other. 00:10:55.890 --> 00:10:59.340 Inquiry based learning is a strategy that will do that for you. 00:10:59.340 --> 00:11:03.870 So when we trying to get children to make connections between different 00:11:03.870 --> 00:11:07.920 learning areas, that inquiry based learning is our go-to strategy. 00:11:08.190 --> 00:11:12.030 That's what helps them to see the interconnectedness in the various 00:11:12.030 --> 00:11:13.350 and different learning areas. 00:11:14.490 --> 00:11:19.560 Inquiry-based learning also provides for differentiation. 00:11:19.650 --> 00:11:24.000 It fits naturally into our instruction, allowing some students 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:27.140 to explore topics on their own pace and their own interests. 00:11:27.560 --> 00:11:31.280 While still catering to those students that perhaps still 00:11:31.310 --> 00:11:33.230 need a little bit more time. 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:38.480 Students that need more attention from us students that still need to 00:11:38.930 --> 00:11:40.970 develop that understanding in areas. 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.770 So inquiry based learning helps those kids that are ready to go ahead. 00:11:46.070 --> 00:11:49.280 It gives them the tools to do that so that we as educators don't 00:11:49.280 --> 00:11:50.930 have to hold those children back. 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:55.940 So inquiry based learning is an excellent strategy for differentiation. 00:11:55.940 --> 00:11:59.510 Inquiry based learning also develops reflective thinking. 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:03.860 So it encourages students to reflect on their learning. 00:12:03.890 --> 00:12:06.680 It's that whole meta-cognition side of learning. 00:12:07.040 --> 00:12:10.970 Where we can go deeper into our learning and being self-aware 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:12.440 of the way that we learn. 00:12:13.310 --> 00:12:17.330 As John Dewey stated, we do not learn from experience. 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:21.020 We learn from reflecting on the experience. 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:23.120 And of course on their doing as well. 00:12:23.750 --> 00:12:28.430 But reflection that whole metacognition side of how do I best learn? 00:12:28.760 --> 00:12:30.800 And so not just for students. 00:12:30.830 --> 00:12:35.480 Reflection is key for us as educators and parents reflecting on our 00:12:35.540 --> 00:12:37.940 own practice on our own teaching. 00:12:38.390 --> 00:12:40.280 That is what makes us better teachers. 00:12:40.310 --> 00:12:43.980 If we just go through the days and through our weeks and through our 00:12:44.010 --> 00:12:47.760 months and through our years doing the same thing over and over again. 00:12:48.030 --> 00:12:51.390 Well, as Einstein said, that's insanity because we can't keep doing 00:12:51.390 --> 00:12:54.480 the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. 00:12:55.050 --> 00:12:59.430 So reflecting on our learning and asking ourselves questions in terms of 00:12:59.820 --> 00:13:04.710 how the experience was, that's going to give us such deep insight into 00:13:04.800 --> 00:13:08.700 our learning, and it's going to get deep inside into students learning. 00:13:09.370 --> 00:13:12.250 And of course there's a downside to inquiry based learning. 00:13:12.310 --> 00:13:16.660 And that is that students require instructional support. 00:13:17.530 --> 00:13:23.380 There will be varied levels of student readiness for independent self-directed. 00:13:23.830 --> 00:13:26.380 Learning in the same room. 00:13:26.740 --> 00:13:31.180 And that's why as educators, it's our job to always keep learning. 00:13:31.630 --> 00:13:34.330 To do research to do the reading. 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:39.100 I've seen teachers say that they just love inquiry, but they don't have the 00:13:39.100 --> 00:13:42.990 time to fit it into the curriculum demands because their students don't 00:13:42.990 --> 00:13:46.680 have the necessary skills and they don't have the time to teach those skills. 00:13:47.230 --> 00:13:48.640 So, what are we to do then? 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:52.780 Are we just going to carry on disengaging students? 00:13:52.780 --> 00:13:55.930 Are we not going to give them the skills they need to 00:13:55.930 --> 00:13:57.850 navigate an ever-changing world. 00:13:59.560 --> 00:14:01.540 Are we not encourage them to think. 00:14:01.900 --> 00:14:06.730 Are we not going to encourage them to ask questions or we're not going to encourage 00:14:06.760 --> 00:14:10.210 them to question the world around them. 00:14:10.210 --> 00:14:11.530 To seek bias. 00:14:11.530 --> 00:14:16.240 In today's world where so much of what we see and what we hear everywhere on 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:22.510 our news in social media, and even in schools is one person's way of thinking. 00:14:22.510 --> 00:14:27.099 We need to teach children to be critical of what they see and what they hear. 00:14:27.670 --> 00:14:31.810 And to question, how much of what is out there is actually true. 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:36.220 And to find solutions and to problem solve. 00:14:36.940 --> 00:14:38.409 That's real education. 00:14:38.710 --> 00:14:39.879 That's real teaching. 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:44.259 So for me as an educator, I think we should be finding creative ways. 00:14:44.649 --> 00:14:49.929 Where we can teach our subject matter and slowly and deliberately 00:14:49.989 --> 00:14:52.059 teach children to question. 00:14:52.539 --> 00:14:54.489 And teach them about bias. 00:14:54.969 --> 00:14:57.369 And teach them where to look for answers. 00:14:57.369 --> 00:15:01.539 And as educators with the demands being made on us for all the paperwork, all 00:15:01.539 --> 00:15:06.969 the administrative tasks that we have, it can be really difficult to find time, to 00:15:06.969 --> 00:15:13.989 fit inquiry into everything else that our administration possibly want us to teach. 00:15:14.719 --> 00:15:18.679 I think one of the things to remember is that as educators, 00:15:19.129 --> 00:15:20.989 we are all creative people. 00:15:21.229 --> 00:15:25.369 We have to come up with solutions for ourselves creative solutions so 00:15:25.369 --> 00:15:29.509 that we can teach kids the things that really matter, not our opinion, 00:15:29.689 --> 00:15:36.019 not the opinion, of mainstream media, not the opinion of the education 00:15:36.019 --> 00:15:39.649 department, not the opinion of one book. 00:15:40.849 --> 00:15:44.989 But where we can go for facts and where children can go and 00:15:44.989 --> 00:15:47.599 look for solutions to problems. 00:15:47.869 --> 00:15:53.629 I think that's the duty of teachers and educators is to give children the skills 00:15:53.659 --> 00:15:57.349 they need to navigate this world of ours. 00:15:57.929 --> 00:16:02.309 In last week's episode with Tonya Gill Christ, she spoke so much about 00:16:02.309 --> 00:16:08.459 how we can practically include small changes where we give students agency 00:16:08.459 --> 00:16:10.679 and teach them the skills of inquiry. 00:16:11.259 --> 00:16:15.179 Remember in the early years inquiry is not a free for all, 00:16:15.209 --> 00:16:16.709 actually, probably none of the years 00:16:16.739 --> 00:16:19.829 it's a free for all until they get to the point where they can 00:16:19.829 --> 00:16:22.229 do free independent inquiry. 00:16:22.379 --> 00:16:23.789 But that takes time. 00:16:24.329 --> 00:16:28.949 Inquiry should be structured and guided by you. 00:16:29.229 --> 00:16:34.719 And even in the later years, some children are still going to need guided inquiry. 00:16:34.959 --> 00:16:39.459 It's not that we just leave children and they go off and do things on their own. 00:16:39.459 --> 00:16:43.419 That's where inquiry based learning gets a really bad rap. 00:16:43.839 --> 00:16:49.029 Inquiry-based learning is absolutely structured and guided. 00:16:49.479 --> 00:16:55.759 Now, if you want to learn more about exactly how to structure guided 00:16:55.759 --> 00:17:00.619 inquiry lessons first of all I think the base place that you can 00:17:00.619 --> 00:17:02.609 go to learn is go and get yourself. 00:17:02.609 --> 00:17:04.269 Trevor MacKenzie's books. 00:17:04.269 --> 00:17:06.289 I will leave links for you in the show notes. 00:17:06.289 --> 00:17:11.299 He's got the inquiry mindset elementary edition, and then of course also the 00:17:11.299 --> 00:17:13.339 inquiry mindset questions edition. 00:17:13.849 --> 00:17:17.299 I would highly, highly, highly recommend you go and read those books. 00:17:17.749 --> 00:17:22.669 I also have for you a little free download where I take you through 00:17:22.669 --> 00:17:27.109 the process of how I break down inquiry in my own classroom, and 00:17:27.109 --> 00:17:28.579 the process that I've followed. 00:17:29.149 --> 00:17:33.139 You know, we are all individuals and we have to do things the way that suits us. 00:17:33.529 --> 00:17:36.649 And I have shared in this little download, which I will link for you 00:17:36.649 --> 00:17:40.969 in the show notes, the steps that I have taken with my own students. 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.929 And before I go one of the easiest, simplest ways for you to 00:17:46.469 --> 00:17:50.969 integrate inquiry into existing lessons is with a picture book. 00:17:51.179 --> 00:17:56.819 So you already doing your reading and your vocabulary using a picture book. 00:17:57.029 --> 00:18:01.919 What better way is there really where you can go and use a picture book, 00:18:01.949 --> 00:18:05.459 but remember not all picture books are created equal, so you really have to 00:18:05.459 --> 00:18:07.229 get yourself a really good picture book. 00:18:07.619 --> 00:18:11.699 Make sure that the picture book is linked either to your science curriculum or 00:18:11.729 --> 00:18:16.919 humanities curriculum and you're reading you're using the vocabulary in the story. 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:21.149 And that is how using a picture book as your catalyst for inquiry, 00:18:21.329 --> 00:18:23.969 as well as teaching all the other things that you need to do, 00:18:23.969 --> 00:18:29.669 like your writing, your phonics, possibly even mathematics concepts. 00:18:29.999 --> 00:18:35.879 Often things like measurement are so easy to incorporate into good literature. 00:18:36.219 --> 00:18:41.799 And I have the perfect lesson plan for you, if you are teaching young children 00:18:41.849 --> 00:18:47.149 Kindy, kindergarten and pre-kindergarten pre-primary year one, probably even I 00:18:47.149 --> 00:18:51.829 have a perfect lesson plan for you with a picture book, I went walking, which 00:18:51.859 --> 00:18:56.029 integrates both English, mathematics, and science into the curriculum. 00:18:56.059 --> 00:18:59.539 And I've put both the Australian and American curriculum 00:18:59.569 --> 00:19:00.829 outcomes there for you. 00:19:01.099 --> 00:19:05.599 So please go download that and use it to your heart's content. 00:19:06.139 --> 00:19:11.269 So I hope that this episode you've really found and seen how beneficial inquiry 00:19:11.269 --> 00:19:14.179 based learning is to our students. 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:15.719 So that's it for today. 00:19:15.899 --> 00:19:17.249 Have a wonderful week ahead. 00:19:17.439 --> 00:19:19.959 Don't forget to go download the lesson plan that I have for you. 00:19:19.959 --> 00:19:24.789 And also the PDF document on how to implement inquiry based learning 00:19:24.999 --> 00:19:27.399 into your existing lessons. 00:19:27.849 --> 00:19:28.989 Until next week. 00:19:29.399 --> 00:19:30.429 I'll love and leave you. 00:19:30.489 --> 00:19:33.069 And remember that curiosity is your superpower. 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:35.229 So stay blooming, curious.