Framework & Assessment
Framework
SIBA Curriculum Framework
The Synergistic Inquiry Flywheel on one page: four stages, each with teacher notes, a specific skill focus and assessment strategies. Built for Grades 4–7.
The Future of
Science Inquiry Education.
Teacher-ready planning worksheets, answer keys and assessment for inquiry-based science in Grades 4–7.
Curated Learning Modules.
Everything in the agenda, organised the way you teach it.
The Five Pillars
One pillar at a time.
Each worksheet plans a single pillar of the inquiry sequence. Worked in order, they carry a class from first noticing through to acting — and then to reflecting on how the inquiry itself was run.
1
Phenomenological Anchoring
Plan the phenomenon students will meet first, and the driving questions it should provoke.
2
Operationalized Curiosity
Turn those open questions into testable hypotheses, with variables and measures defined.
3
Dialectical Data Synthesis
Work claim against counter-claim until the class reaches an integrated, defensible synthesis.
4
Agential Actionability
Connect the findings to a real community challenge and scaffold a student-led action.
5
Metaconnective Synthesis
Map the whole inquiry, then critique and redesign it — the skill assessment.
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Teacher Worksheets
Pillar 1
Phenomenological Anchoring
Teacher guidance and planner for unpacking a real-world phenomenon: what students will observe, why it is puzzling, and the driving questions it should provoke.
Framework & Assessment
Pillar 5 Skill Assessment
Metaconnective Synthesis & Reflection
The Pillar 5 skill assessment. Students map the relationships across the whole inquiry, then critique and redesign the investigation they just ran.
