Inquiry-Based Learning and Project-Based Learning is Essential!

Inquiry-based learning and project based is an essential part of a unit plan. The need for these types learning styles within a unit plan is due to the fact that it allows for vital knowledge to be gained and captured first hand by the students. Within a unit plan there are questions that allow the students mind to create inspired ideas and thoughts. Two types of these questions are essential questions and unit questions.

I am creating a unit plan on the sky and all its components. This unit plan will incorporate inquiry-based learning and project-based learning to ensure quality and lifelong knowledge of this topic for my students. My essential question is: Why is the sky the way it is? This question allows for a variety of thoughtful answers by my students to actually inquire about this topic. This question also allows for several unit questions to incorporate this topic. These questions are:

• Can you capture a cloud, if so how?
• How do the different components of the sky interact and work together?
• How as an explorer do you get to the sky, and what are their experiences?

Thank you and let me know what you think!