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Thank you Joyce for your lesson.   Your lesson and the disciussion prior to it made me think of inquiry in real world classrooms.  Unfortunately most of us teach with a curriculum  and they are standards  that have to be taught.  These realities stifle true inquiry or Level 4 inquiry in most classrooms. I thought about it in the context of swimming. You can't push me in the pool and say swim, it requires some instruction, observing and practicing. This is what I experienced with the this lesson and others. If Joyce told me in the beginning to make a simple circuit I wouldn't have known what to do. Howver with instruction, observing, collaborating with my partner, and then actually making one, I was able to do it and understand what I was doing it.  I also  thought  with required courses in school how is true inquiry happening when students are forced to take  classes they don't want to.