I really enjoyed my time with my students. During that time I was able to come up with several inquiry-based activities that help gave me concentrate  evidence of its effectiveness.

The first thing I did was a water tension lab with the grade 8s, and the students had to create the parameter of the labs as well as a set of procedures to test their experiment. Most students were able to successfully come up with a relatively well-designed experiment. What impressed me was some of the reports they wrote were really detailed and informative. The students were able to on their own learn about the property of water tension.

Another activity I made was for grade 8s to find out about the property of density. I created a more guided inquiry where they have to do a set of small experiments and draw conclusions from them. The students were very engaged and a lot of them had fun while learning about density. I look 5 minutes at the very end to wrap everything together.

My experiences from using inquiry-based learning are that it is very effective at getting students to be engaged. They are able to use what they learn previously to help them during the inquiry activity. One thing I do like to note is that inquiry-based learning often is more time consuming to do, and prepare. This is a huge problem when it comes to higher grades where they have to learn a lot of materials in a short time.

My inquiry showed me that inquiry-based learning is really effective, and my next step is coming up with more inquiry-based learning active for my students, especially for the higher grades.