The AI Inquiry-Based Lesson Plan Generator

Four levels of inquiry

Inquiry exists on a spectrum: confirmation inquiry (teacher provides question, procedure, and expected outcome), structured inquiry (teacher provides question and procedure), guided inquiry (teacher provides question, students design procedure), and open inquiry (students generate the question). Which level is appropriate depends on student readiness and topic. This generator lets you specify the inquiry level in your prompt so the plan matches your students' current capacity for independence.

• Driving question that requires investigation, not recall

• Investigation procedure with flexible or open structure

• Data collection and analysis space

• Claim, evidence, reasoning (CER) framework for conclusions

Driving questions that drive real thinking

A good inquiry question is open enough to support multiple hypotheses but specific enough to investigate in the time available. 'Why is the sky blue?' is too broad for a single lesson. 'How does the temperature of water affect how fast sugar dissolves?' is investigable in 45 minutes. This generator produces driving questions calibrated to the time and materials you have — name the constraints in your prompt and the question adjusts.

Inquiry across subjects, not just science

Most inquiry examples come from science, but the framework works in every subject. Historical inquiry: 'What actually caused the Civil War?' (analyze primary sources). Mathematical inquiry: 'What patterns emerge in the Fibonacci sequence?' (investigate and conjecture). Literary inquiry: 'How does the narrator's perspective shape our understanding of the events?' (close read with evidence). This generator produces inquiry plans across all subjects, not just science.