Small-Group Inquiry Model Adapted for Open Inquiries
STAGE TEACHER
Immerse: Invite curiosity,
build background, find
topics and wonder
Investigate: Develop
questions, search for
information, and discover
answers
Coalesce: Intensify
Research, Synthesize
Information, and Build
Knowledge
KIDS
 Invites curiosity,  Surface curiosity and
questioning and questions
engagement,  Talk, read and write
 Models own inquiry with others to
topics develop possible
 Conducts activities topic choices
that support topic  Read and listen to
finding and build background
commitment knowledge
 Gathers and  Make tentative
organizes relevant commitment to a
materials topic
 Floods kids with  Listen, talk, view and
resources and read to gain
materials on chosen information.
topics or questions  Write, talk, and draw
 Models how to read, to think about
listen and view with information.
a question in mind  Develop questions
 Models how to take and read, listen and
notes by coding text view to answer
and writing in the them.
margins  Use text and visual
 Demonstrates how features to gain
to determine information.
importance  Work to better
 Helps kids sharpen articulate and refine
or change their open chosen topic or
inquiry focus questions.
 Shows how to infer  Engage in deeper
answers and draw reading and
conclusions researching: books,
 Demonstrates how articles, videos, and
to read for the gist library visits
and synthesize  Target key issues
information. and information
 Models how to  Check sources and
evaluate sources determine reliability
  Teaches  Keep asking: so
interviewing what? What about
strategies this really matters?
 Facilitates  Practice
arrangements for interviewing
out of school  Conduct people
resources research
 Synthesize
information
Go Public: Share Learning,  Co-construct  Co-construct
Demonstrate expectations and expectations and
Understanding, Take Action rubrics for final rubrics for final
projects projects.
 Offers the widest  Demonstrates
range of possibilities learning and
for understanding in a
sharing/performing variety of ways.
 Welcome kids’  Become teachers as
suggestions for they share their
demonstrations. knowledge with
 Helps kids find real others
audiences and  Articulate their
opportunities to learning process and
share knowledge learning changes
 Helps students  Reflect on their
reflect knowledge building
 With students,  Consider changes in
responds, assesses, their own beliefs or
an evaluates behavior.
projects.

Copied from, Harvey & Daniels, 2009, pp. 231-232