Inquiry and Project Based Learning

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As a special education teacher, inquiry and project- based learning may help my students gain a better grasp of subjects and topics. Making connections is important and is a good skill to learn. To understand how these are important to the classroom, we must first know what they are:

• Inquiry-based learning is seeking information by asking questions. It is aninvolveent of the students in their own learning. It is also the movement away from listening to and memorizing facts that can be regurgitated. With inquiry-based learning, students must create a question related to the topic inquiry to be explored, conduct an investigation, gather information, discuss the findings, and reflect on what was learned.

• Project-based learning is a system of learning that promotes the exploration of individual interests through research. It allows students to investigate real world problems and create solutions and ideas based on research and data. This is used in the classroom as a tool to facilitate inquiry skills and helps students become self-sufficient in the quest to answer questions. It builds intrapersonal skills, collaborative efforts, and meets the end goal of learning about topics through real world situations.

Inquiry and project based learning is important to my class and unit plan because they both call for students asking questions and students finding answers. Looking at the essential question "How do disasters impact communities?" there are many ways one can think of to implement inquiry and project based learning. Looking deeper at unit questions, inquiry and project based learning can be used to discover how disasters cause change, how natural disasters affect the world, and how disasters have changed history.