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4 – I think that Julianna’s activity was the most inquiry based activity. Julianna was required to create a franchise and work with two others from her class. Each student was given a different role which required them to think differently and collaborate as a group. They needed to think critically to decided which franchise would be the most successful and why. This helps them with reasoning skills and there many different answers that can be found to solve the problem here. This also helps students in the long run because they see what is required when making investments.

5 – After looking through Julianna and Liz’s posts, my activity was definitely the least inquiry based. My reasoning for choosing the activity was that the students needed to look at different ways of solving the problem. But seeing the other activities it made me realize that while there were different approaches to my problem, in the end there was only one right answer, and that is not what inquiry asks you to do.

6 – I think Liz’s rubric is the best for assessing inquiry learning. She connects it well with her definition, touching on things like “more than one right answer” and the importance of “multiple outcomes” of a certain problem. It is clear that exactly what is being asked of the student is what they are being graded on.