inquiry-based discovery learning

Inquiry-based discovery methods allow students to draw conclusions and construct meaning for open-ended questions by collecting and analyzing data with minimal guidance or instruction. In such activities, the process of investigating is valued as much as, if not more than, the results of those efforts. Skills associated with scientific inquiry include asking questions, planning and conducting investigations, using appropriate tools and techniques to gather data, thinking critically and logically about relationships between evidence and explanations, constructing and analyzing alternative explanations, and communicating scientific arguments.