* Australian curriculum and inquiry learning

The Australian Curriculum has inquiry skills peppered throughout its syllabuses. The General Capabilities also have a focus on inquiry, in particular the Critical and Creative Thinking Capability.

Where is the spine for these skills?  How can they be taught systematically?

Read these!

• Mandy Lupton’s  Inquiry skills in the Australian Curriculum: A bird’s eye view
• Karen Bonanno’s F-10 inquiry skills scope and sequence and Core skills and tools
• Lee FitzGerald’s Alignments of the GID process with Critical and Creative Thinking General Capability
• Lee FitzGerald’s  Opportunity knocks: The Australian Curriculum and Guided Inquiry
• Lee FitzGerald’s Guided Inquiry in Practice

The Guided Inquiry Design process (GID) – a spine for the Australian Curriculum

Syba Digital. Guided Inquiry Design in action: Middle school downloadable resources. Adapted with permission from Guided Inquiry Design in action: Middle school/ Leslie K. Maniotes, LaDawna Harrington, and Patrice Lambusta: Foreword by Carol Kuhlthau, Libraries Unlimited, Copyright 2016.