• Home
• What is Enquiring Minds?
• Why do it?
• Try it
• The guide
  • Introduction
    • Acknowledgements
    • What is Enquiring Minds?
    • Current problems
    • The Enquiring Minds vision
  • Underpinning ideas
    • Views of knowledge
    • Views of students
    • Enquiring Minds in action
  • The enquiry cycle
    • Initiating and eliciting
    • Defining and responding
    • Doing and making
    • Communicating, presenting and evaluating
    • Towards more open enquiry
  • Getting started
  • Practical ideas and resources
    • Initiating and eliciting
    • Defining and responding
    • Doing and making
    • Communicating, presenting and evaluating
  • Further information
    • Links with other initiatives
    • The Enquiring Minds research programme
    • Getting involved
    • Further reading
• Our research
• Get involved
• About the project

The guide

The Enquiring Minds guide provides detailed information about the Enquiring Minds philosophy, a description of the project, and practical advice and tips about how to use the Enquiring Minds approach in the classroom.

The guide is available in three formats:

• online - the guide is fully reproduced in this section of the website
• pdf - you can download a pdf version of the guide (2.8mb)
• printed copy - you can order a free printed copy of the guide via the request form on the Futurelab website.

“We want them to be able to pursue independent enquiry in whatever subject, in whatever discipline, whether it’s in school or not. We want to get them excited about learning.”

Teacher