It is interesting that when in high school, seniors state “I can’t wait to be done with learning.” I have heard this year after year from graduates. Here I am still learning after over 20 years of teaching. I have really never stopped learning, and that is the goal of inquiry-based learning. Students are creating the learning, to learn that they will have to continue to learn throughout their life. Whether it be as simple as changing a toilet seat in your bathroom, to determine the amount of paint you will need to paint a room in your house that is not square, to learning how to write lessons that allow students to be the center of their learning (all three of these I did this week). Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, Evaluation. These 5 simple words were the focus of creating one of the lessons (Number Systems) for my Big Data Unit . These are the focus of the BSCS Science Learning model for inquiry-based learning (Bybee, et al,...