1. Inquiry learning: Alignment across the the Australian Curriculum Dr Mandy Lupton Co-ordinator: Master of Education (teacher-librarianship) Queensland University of Technology mandy.lupton@qut.edu.au Twitter: LuptonMandy http://inquirylearningblog.wordpress.com/ Inquiry learning: Alignment across the Australian Curriculum v6

2. Analysis framework Questioning Guidance (teacher vs student direction) Information literacy (seeking, locating, accessing, evaluating and using information) Stages Discipline specific vs generic http://inquirylearningblog.wordpress.com/

3. How is inquiry represented in the Australian Curriculum? Inquiry skills are explicit in:  Science F-12  History F-12  Geography F-12  Civics and Citizenship 3-10  Economics and Business 5-10  Critical & Creative Thinking (Inquiring, identifying, exploring and organising information and ideas)  ICT (Investigating with ICT) Inquiry is hinted at in Mathematics:  F-10 - Data representation and interpretation - Stats & probability  Senior General Maths – statistical investigation

4. A bird’s eye view http://pixabay.com/en/seagull-bird-beach-bill-nature-183303/

5. Inquiry strands questions, information literacy, evaluating information

6. Lack of alignment across year levels Evaluation of information: Year 5 Geography Year 5 Civics & Citizenship Year 6 ICT Year 7 History Year 8 CCT Year 9 Science Terms: Science: pose, identify, formulate, construct History: pose, identify, formulate, frame Geography: pose, develop, formulate Economics & Business: develop Civics & Citizenship: pose, develop Scaffolding sequence: e.g. Year 7 Science students 'individually plan', Year 9 Geography students' independently design' investigations

7. Questioning

8. Disciplinarity

9. F-6: finding, selecting & accessing sources

10. F-6 - independently gathering/searching

11. 7-10: finding, selecting & accessing information

12. Acknowledging sources

13. F-6: evaluation of sources

14. 7-10: evaluation of sources

15. F-12: usefulness

16. 7-12: validity

17. 7-12: reliability

18. 7-12:bias

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