Guided Inquiry

Guided inquiry is an approach or methodology which allows students to seek and engage with a variety of ideas to increase their understanding in pursuit of knowledge and greater awareness. Guided inquiry is a planned, supervised and targeted intervention into developing information literacy and enhancing learning. This approach or methodology to learning provides a means by which teachers are able to tailor learning experiences and opportunities, resources and processes to the needs and abilities of each student according to intended curriculum learning outcomes.
ALIA/ASLA policy on guided inquiry and the curriculum. 
https://www.alia.org.au/about-alia/policies-standards-and-guidelines/aliaasla-policy-guided-inquiry-and-curriculum

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Guided Inquiry Resource Links
Guided Inquiry (Great Lakes Science)
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Guided Inquiry Design
Guided Inquiry Design® is a roadmap to successful inquiry based learning.  Guided Inquiry Design® puts the research into a practical teacher and student friendly model where teachers become instructional designers and students ask great questions to learn.

Carol Kuhlthau Guided Inquiry Design

Research Articles
The following research articles provide background information about guided inqiry and may be useful in your own planning.

Guided Inquiry:
Learning in the 21st Century