Exploring, investigating, and understanding are fundamental to school. Teachers have children do these things in a variety of ways, but after completing an Inquiry Based Project of my own I have discovered how useful and effective it is at doing all three of these things. Basically, an Inquiry Based Project or IBP, is a great tool to use to allow your students to explore a certain topic determined by the teacher and then do research or investigative work on it via the internet to answer question you pose as the instructor. The is not only a great tool for students to get acquainted with the web better, but I could also use this to introduce a new lesson to help formulate a basis for understanding or I could use this as a way to enhance material we are already learning about in my future classroom. The flexibility on subjects are vast as well. There is a plethora of options when it comes to websites and since I now understand how to evaluate one I can be fully confident that my students will be learning something.
Completing this activity allowed me to do many things that a teacher would do in a classroom. I thought creatively about a topic that I thought my students should learn and used a textbook as reference for standards and depth of subject. I also was able to find a useful website and design questions and an assignment appropriate for a certain age group. This really helped me get a sense of what I can expect when I become a teacher and I will definitely use this tool when I get into my own classroom.
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