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Teaching scientific inquiry using as a process for learning science provides teachers with the opportunity to develop student abilities use critical thinking, along with deepening student understanding of science. As students focus on the experimental processes of doing science investigations they develop the ability to ask questions, investigate aspects of the natural world around them, and use the power of observations to construct reasonable explanations of experiment findings.

Inquiry based learning stresses science process skill development and nurtures the habits of mind necessary to think like a scientist. Scientific inquiry integration in a science curriculum is quite different from a traditional science curriculum, because it is student centered. Teaching science shifts from being the purveyor of knowledge to a facilitator of learning. An inquisitive classroom involves active learning and web-based technology integration.

Inquiry Learning: Benefits for Students

One of the benefits of inquiry learning is that students are fully involved in the active learning process. Students who are making observations, collecting data, analyzing data, synthesizing information, and drawing conclusions are developing useful problem-solving skills. These skills fully incorporate the basic and integrated science process skills, which are necessary in scientific inquiry.