Teacher created summaries

1. Analysing the 8 Stages of Guided Inquiry
Activity:
Each participant
will be given one
stage to become
an expert on &
create a summary
resource

2. Open - To provide a hook to engage students
 Cognitive Processes Employed
Questioning; prior knowledge; discussion; recall; connectedness
 Affective Domain Elements
Confused; excited; overwhelmed; disengaged; engaged
 Which of the 5 Key Competencies will be developed?
Social skills; mindset
 What could this look like as a classroom activity?
Role play; video; hands on; noise

3. Immerse – Building up a background
 Cognitive Processes Employed
 Affective Domain Elements
 Which of the 5 Key Competencies will be developed?
 What could this look like as a classroom activity?

4. Explore - Narrowing the big picture to a specific area of interest
 Cognitive Processes Employed
They build background knowledge
Often skipped over, explore for different ideas that they are interested in rather than for
collecting detailed info – browsing a variety of texts
 Affective Domain Elements (What might students be feeling?)
Confusion – ideas don’t seem to fit together
Need to skim but can easily get bogged down in details
Overwhelmed
 Which of the 5 Key Competencies will be developed?
Mindset – change in approach to the task
Curriculum content
Information Literacy
 What could this look like as a classroom activity?
Flashcards with words, phrases, terms – students select one that interests them and start sorting
through resources to find what is interesting and/or relevant

5. Identify - This phase is the defining moment for the direction of their inquiry
 Cognitive Processes Employed
Pause and ponder - consider
Identify key inquiry question - focus
Decide direction - focus
 Affective Domain Elements (What might students be feeling?)
*Beginning of the phase they will be “unsure and uncertain” – they may not know the direction they want to
take.
*At the turning point they will be “excited, confident and determined” – they now know where they are
heading
 Which of the 5 Key Competencies will be developed?
Literacy skills and information literacy (they will have been researching and note taking)
Mindset (going through the experience of change between the beginning phase and the turning point
they will develop a desire for learning to learn)
Social skills (if it is a group project they will be communicating, cooperating and coordinating their
understanding)
 What could this look like as a classroom activity?
This is not a zone of intervention phase so the activity would involve each student reviewing the research
they have gathered in the Open, Immerse and Explore phase. It may require some type of graphic organiser to
be identified for use.
The teacher explains to student that students will be making a decision about the direction they are going to
take. Guide students to the fact that it is important to make a decision as they need to direct their time and
effort towards something focused.
All students will get here at a different stage.

6. GATHER - The students choose and find a broad range of
sources and then deeply comprehend and reflect on this
knowledge to construct their own understanding of the topic.
 Cognitive Processes Employed
(What types of thinking and processes will be used?)
Analysing, Evaluating, Comprehending
 Affective Domain Elements (What might students be feeling?)
Clarity. Possible thoughts: This is interesting! This is clearer now.
Which of the 5 Key Competencies will be developed?
Information Literacy, Literacy skills.
 Summarise this phase in one sentence:
What could this look like as a classroom activity?
Data gathering, Source evaluation through peer discussion,
stepping them through on how to write an annotated
bibliography

7. Create - Creating is understanding, articulating and presenting the most
important findings of the task in a creative and engaging way.
 Cognitive Processes Employed
(What types of thinking and processes will be used?)
Reflecting on the process, Interpreting and analysing accumulated
information
 Affective Domain Elements (What might students be feeling?)
Confident to share their ideas or findings
 Which of the 5 Key Competencies will be developed?
Mindset, information and literacy (recording results), social
skills(awareness of audience/communicating),
 What could this look like as a classroom activity?
PowerPoint, demonstration, oral presentation, drama, written report,
film, instructional booklet.

8. Share - We can learn from one another
 Cognitive Processes Employed
Sharing their insights with others
Thinking about the audience and how best to present insights with others eg. Online blog, podcast,
forum, rally etc.
 Affective Domain Elements (What might students be feeling?)
Excited about the opportunity to share newfound knowledge
Pride: reaching the top of the ‘GI’ mountain ‘this was worth it!’
Nervous about putting their research/learning ‘out there’
 Which of the 5 Key Competencies will be developed?
Social skills: if presentation is collaborative
Mindset: sharing the process the students have been through to reach ‘sharing’ point of GI
Curriculum Content: sharing research/knowledge/learning with relevant audience
 What could this look like as a classroom activity?
Classroom Blog, presentation to relevant audience (classmates, parents, community etc), research
book, poster, rally.

9. Evaluate - Damn I’m awesome.
 Cognitive Processes Employed
Synthesis, comparing, analysis, judging & understanding
 Affective Domain Elements
Self-conscious
Apprehensive /performance anxiety
Jubilation and anticipation of end
Confidence (especially at realizing new skills or talents)
 Which of the 5 Key Competencies will be developed?
Curriculum
Content
 What could this look like as a classroom activity?
Journal entries
Post –it notes
Student feedback
rubrics