Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to use inquiry in your classroom so that students can be engaged, make meaning from their learning, and integrate important skills. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Jillian Gordon, a grade 4/5 teacher and vice-principal in North Vancouver, British Columbia.

Some further links about inquiry:

• https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2016/01/15/teaching-through-an-inquiry-stance

• https://inquiry.galileo.org/ch5/an-inquiry-stance-on-practice/

• http://nvsd44curriculumhub.ca

• https://www.wabisabilearning.com/blog/teachers-parents-independent-thinking

• http://theconversation.com/why-your-child-will-benefit-from-inquiry-based-learning-97245

You can follow Jillian on twitter at @msgordonclass or visit her class website at msgordonclass.weebly.com