Inquiry Learning

The experience of the Lifesaver lesson accurately describes the attributes of inquiry learning. Through this experience it became evident that inquiry results can be subjective. Everyone's interpretation of the data was different. The time that it took to get to the results varied from person to person.Everyone's thought process was different. While many of the groups came to the same conclusion, the reasoning was different. This was a very beneficial demonstration.
This shows that there are definite benefits to inquiry learning. If the goal is to allow students to gather information and then to use that information to draw a conclusion, there is no right or wrong answer. This can be an effective tool in teaching. This gives the student the chance to apply what they know to draw conclusions, and then they are able to defend their conclusions and communicate that to the larger group. This can be very useful in any classroom.