Inquiry Lesson Plan

Inquiry Based Learning it’s our first method of learning, its starts with our burning desire to know the ultimate truth and we do this by using our senses, by observing our environment and duplicating the the things we see or the noises we hear, it’s all about our curiosity and how we use our brains to satisfy our thirst for knowledge.
During the school experience this way of acquiring knowledge is all but lost because of the way the education system works, most of the teaching takes place on the shape of memorization and repetition, this strongly comes into conflict with our natural way of learning which is based on questioning and self observation, the most brilliant minds learn by inquiry based learning, I read somewhere that Albert Einstein used to have only one type of shirts and pants on his closet, because he didn't want to get distracted with those trivial matters and instead paid more attention to the questions on his mind.
The inquiry based learning is meant to be used as a way to understand concepts and then apply that learning to the resolution of problems, the teachers are not the focus of the class and they don't provide the full knowledge of the subject, they just need to make subjects look interesting and fun, then students will be encouraged to learn and create concepts on their own.
The encouragement of questions its a great factor on Inquiry based learning, also the use of technology and activities that go beyond the classroom, the current education system its really outdated, it was meant for a different type of society, we live in a totally different era where communication and information are at the reach of the hand, its because of this that the education system must change to adapt to the modern era, the different types of questions that are critical on the use of Inquiry Based learning are: Inference, interpretation, transfer and Hypothesis questions.
On the Interpretation questions teachers ask for students to gather more detailed information, and to get new perspectives based on that information, next we have interpretation questions: here students can change the interpretation of certain concepts in order to get a better meaning of the concept itself, for example: when adding color to a black and white picture how would this affect the perception of the same picture.
Transfer questions take the previous knowledge to new and unexpected places, like for example in an art course, asking students to imagine Leonardo DaVinci performing a Post modern painting, Questions about Hypothesis ask from students to make predictions on the lesson based on their knowledge, Inquiry based learning goes hand in hand with the constructivist approach to learning, they both aim for stimulating the minds of their students by making them create their own concepts and gain a better knowledge of the world around them.