Inquiry lessons take more time to plan and do BUT they are so important and beneficial to the classroom. Wait, you might be asking a question...what is an inquiry lesson? Perhaps, you do these all the time (I hope!).
Inquiry lessons provide students the opportunity to ask questions AND find out answers for themselves...with you helping and guiding along the way of course! It might hard to do lessons like these every single day, but once a week is quite manageable!
An example of an inquiry lesson (combining science and math) is giving your students various sodas and scales and get them asking questions. You can model a few questions to get them to start thinking: does diet weigh less than regular; does carbonated weigh more than flat soda; etc. They can use the scientific method to test the various questions they come up with; come up with a hypothesis, and so on. Let them come up with the questions and be the curious beings that they are (or hopefully are)!
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