Inquiry+Model


 * The Inquiry Model **

//**Planning**//: //**Retrieving**//: //**Processing**//:
 * Identify a topic area for inquiry
 * Identify possible information sources
 * Identify audience and presentation format
 * Establish evaluation critera
 * Outline a plan for inquiry
 * Develop an information retrieval plan
 * Locate and collect resources
 * Evaluate information
 * Review and revise the plan for inquiry
 * Establish a focus for inquiry
 * Choose pertinent information
 * Record information
 * Make connections and inferences
 * Review and revise the plan for inquiry

//**Creating**//:
 * Organize information
 * Creating a product
 * Thinking about the audience
 * Revise and edit
 * Review and revise the plan for inquiry

//**Sharing**//:
 * Communicate with the audience
 * Present new understandings
 * Demonstrate appropriate audience behaviour

//**Evaluating**//:
 * Evaluate the product
 * Evaluate the inquiry process and plan
 * Review and revise personal inquiry model
 * Transfer learning to new situation beyond school

(Alberta Learning, Focus on Inquiry, 2004, Chapter 2, p. 10)