1. INQUIRY LEARNING INQUIRY LEARNING IN THE FRENCH CLASSROOM
(WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT WORK?)

2. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
What is Inquiry Learning?
How can we teach vocabulary through inquiry?
How can we teach grammar through inquiry?
How can we teach cultural concepts through inquiry?
What is Tarsia?
Productive creation time

3. WHAT IS INQUIRY LEARNING?
A teaching style that encourages students to be...
Curious
Critical thinkers
Problem solvers
Inquiry learning is NOT:
Lazy teaching
Unguided discovery
Giving students free choice of what to learn or how to learn
“The meaning of ‘knowing’ has shifted from being able to remember and repeat information to being able to find and use it.”
(National Research Council, 2007)

4. WHY BOTHER WITH INQUIRY?
Inquiry learning encourages students to be
Curious
Critical thinkers
Problem solvers
Allows students to make connections
Prepares students for the “real world”
Causes students to be active learners
Builds enthusiasm

5. HOW CAN WE EMBED INQUIRY?
Pose questions
Identify problems
Engage students with activities

6. VOCABULARY THROUGH INQUIRY - QUESTIONS -
What words do we need to know to talk about family/hobbies/routines/food?
Quand vous lisez les mots suivants, vous pensez à quels mots en anglais?
What words do I need so I can describe what I see/hear in French?

7. VOCABULARY THROUGH INQUIRY - PROBLEMS -
Your family is moving to New Caledonia and you will need to introduce yourself to new friends.
Un de tes camarades a caché ton iPad dans une salle de classe. Laquelle?
Tu t’es perdu(e) à Paris et tu dois retrouver ton chemin pour arriver à ton hôtel. Comment tu te- débrouilles?

8. VOCABULARY THROUGH INQUIRY - ACTIVITIES -
Highlight words in the text related to food/textiles/environment/hobbies
10-minute vocab lists
Tarsia puzzles

9. RECOGNISING UNFAMILIAR VOCABULARY

10. GRAMMAR THROUGH INQUIRY - QUESTIONS -
How can I talk about my hobbies/my weekend/my daily routine/my holidays in a different tense?
What do I notice about the verbs/adjectives in this text?
How does this text seem different to others I have seen before?

11. GRAMMAR THROUGH INQUIRY - PROBLEMS -
Most purposeful extended writing tasks can be set up as a "problem" that requires students to learn a particular new grammar concept

12. GRAMMAR THROUGH INQUIRY - ACTIVITIES -
Highlight all adjectives/verbs in the text
Dictations with added discussion
Determine the rule from the text
Tarsia puzzles

13. DICTATION WITH DISCUSSION
Students completed the paragraph as a dictation then copied the correct text into their books., Students then discovered the rules for conjugating reflexive verbs in the perfect tense.

14. CULTURE THROUGH INQUIRY - QUESTIONS -
Qu’est-ce qui se passe dans cette photo?
What do you see/think/wonder?
How is family different in France to Australia?
Quelle est l’importance de la nourriture pour les français?
Is food just food in France?

15. CULTURE THROUGH INQUIRY - PROBLEMS -
You are a travel journalist and need to write an article about important celebrations in France.
A new student has just arrived at your school from France. What important thinks will you need to tell them about school that they don’t already know from France?

16. CULTURE THROUGH INQUIRY - ACTIVITIES -
Production items (brochure, vlog, poster)
Online discussions
Debates
Photos and videos prompting “see, think, wonder”

17. TIME FOR TARSIA…
Find a partner
Collect a puzzle
Win a prize

18. QUESTIONS? WHAT NOW? Create Tarsia puzzles
Create discovery passages (for students to discover new vocabulary or grammar rules)
Create inquiry activities
Embed inquiry into a unit of work
QUESTIONS?