Through their education, students explore how societies work, what the underlying values are in their social worlds and how to understand certain aspects of their societies. Social inquiry helps students examine social issues, ideas, themes or various phenomena. It is a process of knowledge- seeking and exploration of various social phenomena. Inquiry-based learning is a process that usually involves the following steps (e.g., Spronken-Smith & Walker, 2010):
- identifying research questions
- gathering and examining information
- synthesizing information and exploring the studies phenomena
- developing reflective and critical understandings (see Image 1).
Image 1: Social Inquiry 
Social inquiry is an inquiry-based learning approach practiced in social science classes. Social inquiry can take student-centered forms, in which social inquiry allows students to translate their own ideas into knowledge. This module provides resources and information to promote inquiry-based learning.