Inquiry Process: Exploration

Exploration:

                Exploration, the second stage in the Inquiry Process, is when the children have the opportunity to manipulate materials and construct their own knowledge. The students using their own previous knowledge can collectively expand on their ideas and develop new ideas and understandings. In this stage the students can also develop further questions to explore based on the exploration. In the clean water activity the children were exploring a variety of natural and unnatural materials to investigate how water is made clean. Their findings were being recorded on chart paper.