PYP Inquiry Cycle
This section helps you move through the inquiry cycle with confidence. Each topic gives you tips, tools, and ideas to help at a different stage of asking questions, researching, organising thinking, drawing conclusions, reflecting, and taking action.
Tuning In
Start with curiosity, questions, prior knowledge, and tools that help you notice and wonder.
Finding Out
Use research strategies, observation, reading, note-taking, and trusted sources to learn more.
Sorting Out
Organise ideas, compare information, group evidence, and make sense of what you have found.
Going Further
Ask deeper questions, test ideas, explore new directions, and extend your inquiry with purpose.
Making Conclusions
Pull ideas together, explain your understanding, and decide what your learning now means.
Taking Action
Use your learning to create, share, improve, help, or make a thoughtful difference.
Reflecting
Think about what you learned, what changed, what worked well, and what you would do next time.