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When I began this course, I did not know what to expect.  I had an idea of what inquiry-based learning was, but I did not know much about it.  Over the past seven weeks, I have gained a lot of knowledge about inquiry-based learning.  In the beginning of the course, I found the concepts surrounding inquiry-based learning to be a little vague and difficult.  It was not until I saw the video about the physics class learning about optics that I started to really grasp the ideas surrounding inquiry-based learning.  After that, working on the development of my own inquiry-based lesson plan really made me think critically of the style.  At first, I thought it was only applicable to science course, but I have sculpted my lesson around ancient history and others in the class created lessons based upon their own disciplines.  I think mine works out pretty well.  I’ve reviewed other lesson plans created by my peers and I think they all look pretty good.  For my classroom, I intend to make an attempt at, at least, trying out the lesson plan that I created for this class.  I also think that the 5E model can be applied to a lot of the projects that I already do.