OBJECTIVES

• The learner should be able to:

• Share research experiences and knowledge
• Explain the importance of research in daily life
• Describe characteristics, processes, and ethics of research
• Differentiate quantitative from qualitative research
• Provide examples of research in areas of interest (arts,
humanities, sports, science, business, agriculture and
fisheries, information and communication technology, and
social inquiry)
 NATURE OF INQUIRY AND RESEARCH

Inquiry Research

Inquiry is to look to Research is to

information by asking discover truths by
various questions investigating on your
about the thing you chosen topic
are curious about scientifically

“a systematic way of doing things wherein you are to begin from the simplest to the
most complex modes or patterns of thinking.”
LESSON 1: NATURE OF INQUIRY
After this lesson, you should be able to:
1.Use some new terms you have learned in expressing their worldviews
freely;
2.Explain your understanding of the term “inquiry”;
3.Outline all the ideas you have learned about inquiry;
4.Infer about societal issues through speculative thinking;
5.Enumerate the benefits of inquiry-based learning;
6.Identify a question as simple or complex based on the kind of thinking it
elicits from you; and
7.Compose an essay to prove the extent of your understanding of inquiry.
ACTIVITY 1: MAKING WORD
MEANINGFUL
• DIRECTIONS: COMPLETE THE
BUBBLE GRAPH OR CONCEPT MAP
BY WRITING WORDS ASSOCIATED
WITH THE MIDDLE WORD. BE
GUIDED BY THE CLUES IN THE
SENTENCES BELOW EACH GRAPH.
INQUIRE
CRUCIAL
GUARANTEE
ACTIVITY 2: USING NEWLY LEARNED
WORDS

•Directions: use the new words in

sentences and write them in a sheet
of paper.
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
Meaning of inquiry
• Learning is your way of obtaining
knowledge about your surroundings.
• Inquiry is a learning process that
motivates you to obtain knowledge or
information about people, things, places,
or events by means of investigating or
asking questions.
• Required to collect data, meaning, facts,
and information about the object of your
inquiry, and examine such data carefully.
 INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
Meaning of inquiry (continued)
•
Execute thinking strategies that range from lower-order
to higher-order thinking skills.
•
Inquiry is an active learning process.
•
You need to probe, investigate, or ask questions to find
answers or solutions.
•
Inquiry is a problem-solving technique.
•
Like scientist, think logically or systematically in seeking
evidence to support their conclusions.
•
Imagine, speculate, interpret, criticize, and create
something out of what you discovered.
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING

Meaning of inquiry (continued)

• Inquiry elevates your thinking power.
• Inquisitive thinking allows you to shift from one
level of thought to another.
• Solving a problem is a cooperative learning.
GOVERNING PRINCIPLES
Foundations of Inquiry
• John Dewey's theory of connected experiences
for exploratory and reflective thinking;
• Lev Vygotsky’s Zone of proximal development
(ZPD); and
• Jerome Bruner's theory on learner’s varied world
perceptions.
GOVERNING PRINCIPLES
Inquiry, as a way of thinking of learning,
concerns itself with these elements:
• Changing knowledge;
• Creativity;
• Subjectivity;
• Socio-cultural factors;
• Sensory experiences; and
• Higher-order thinking
GOVERNING PRINCIPLES
Inquiry Methods
• fieldwork
• case study
• investigation
• individual group project
• research work
• others…
 BENEFITS OF INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
1. Elevates interpretative thinking through graphic skills
2. Improves students learning abilities
3. Widens learner’s vocabulary
4. Facilities problem-solving acts
5. Increases social awareness and cultural knowledge
6. Encourages cooperative learning
7. Provides mastery of procedural knowledge
8. Encourages higher-order thinking strategies
9. Hastens conceptual understanding
GROUP WORK
Directions:
Form a group of 8 members. Choose any of the
following group activities
• Speculations: recall the hottest issue in town. Prove
how inquisitive you are by raising top-level probing
questions about it.
• Role-Playing: Four will act as police authorities
investigating a criminal case while the other four will
play the suspected law violators. Ask probing
questions.