Ibo Enquiry Skills

I was reading the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) document titled 'Making the PYP Happen'. I constitute the virtually beautiful niggling department which outlines the kinds of enquiry skills the Primary Years Program (PYP) seeks to prepare in  learners. It calls these transdisciplinary skills.

I had been worried that I was pushing my Year five degree likewise difficult inwards the expanse of enquiry past times bespeak them to practise surveys in addition to analyse the data. However, afterward reading this document, I encounter that I am correct on rails in addition to volition at nowadays delve deeper into the interpretation of data.

Research Skills

Formulating Questions - Identifying something i wants or needs to know in addition to bespeak compelling in addition to relevant questions that tin last researched.

Observing - Using all the senses to notice relevant details.



Planning - Develop a class of action; writing an outline; devising ways of finding out necessary information.

Collecting data - Gathering information from a multifariousness of first- in addition to second-hand sources such every bit maps, surveys, straightaway observation, books, films, people, museums in addition to ICT.

Recording data - Describing in addition to recording observations past times drawing, authorities annotation taking, making charts, tallying, writing statements.

Organizing data - Sorting in addition to categorizing information; arranging into understandable forms such every bit narrative descriptions, tables, timelines, graphs in addition to diagrams.

Interpreting data - Drawing conclusions from relationships in addition to patterns that emerge from organized data.

Presenting enquiry findings - Effectively communicating what has been learned; choosing appropriate media.

(International Baccalaureate Organization 2007)