INQUIRY SKILLS: ALIGNMENT ACROSS THE

AUSTRALIAN CURRICULUM V6 PART 2

PRES EN TED BYDR MAN DY LU PTO N

CO -ORD I NATOR: MAST ER OF ED UCAT I ON (TEA CHER- L IBRA RI ANSHIP )

QUEENSLA ND UNIV ERS ITY OF TECHNOLOGY

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Inquiry learning: Alignment across the the Australian Curriculum

Dr Mandy LuptonCo-ordinator: Master of Education (teacher-

librarianship) Queensland University of Technology

mandy.lupton@qut.edu.auTwitter: LuptonMandy

http://inquirylearningblog.wordpress.com/

Inquiry skills: Alignment across the Australian Curriculum

v6Part 2

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Inquiry strands

questions, information literacy, evaluating information

• What inquiry/information literacy model do you use?

• How do the Australian Curriculum inquiry stages relate to the model?

Questioning

• What role do you have/want to have in terms of questioning?

• What questioning frameworks do you use/plan to use?

Disciplinarity

• How does the use of a generic inquiry/information literacy process relate to the different disciplinary inquiry process and outcomes?

F-6: finding, selecting & accessing sources

• In what year level do students start to independently search for information?

F-6 - independently gathering/searching

7-10: finding, selecting & accessing information

• How does your current practice relate to the information literacy elements?

• What are you planning for the future?• At what primary year level do you start

working with students to acknowledge sources?

Acknowledging sources

• How do you work with students to evaluate information?

• What evaluation criteria do you use?

Evaluation of information

• Year 5 Geography• Year 5 Civics & Citizenship• Year 6 ICT• Year 7 History• Year 8 CCT

• Year 9 Science

F-6: evaluation of sources

7-10: evaluation of sources

F-12: usefulness

7-12: validity

7-12: reliability

7-12:bias

F-6: Using information to…

7-10: Using information to..

11-12: Use information to…

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