Inquiry and Project-Based Instruction

Project based learning is a method wherein students work in teams to solve real-world problems. The teacher presents a problem to students and engages students in dialogue to propose solutions to the problems. The solution to the problem often involves a multi-disciplinary approach and requires students to access and utilize knowledge from various subjects. Inquiry based learning facilitates the role of students as scientists. Students pose questions, observe and question phenomena, collect data, pose explanations, develop hypotheses, test hypotheses, collect additional data, and draw conclusions. This strategy can be used to answer questions not only in the field of science, but in mathematics, language arts, or history/social science as well.