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"Science is often thought of as a specialized set of interests, abilities and practices, rather than as a general process of question-asking, intuition-testing and story-revising that all of us engage in daily, and which all of us--whatever our content area--can pursue in our classrooms. Understood in this way, science is accessible to everyone, and perhaps best taught intersected with other parts of the curriculum, by teachers who are themselves excited by the sort of teaching and learning that involves exploring new realms and trying out new tasks."

Diane, the institute description (quoted above) seems to say that all of us engage in the general process of question-asking, intuition-testing and story-revising (inquiry?). Do you agree? I wonder if students are familiar with this kind of learning/exploring the world but that they are unfamiiar with teachers asking for/assessing this kind of learning?