i. Provides a specific step-by-step procedure for the investigation and data collection techniques-prescriptive in nature as students record data as they conduct their inquiry (either hands-on or online).

i. Challenges learners to answer or contemplate investigative questions that are related to an appropriate national science education standard, e.g. questions related to discrepant events in nature.

ii. Encourages students to explicitly reflect on and use their prior knowledge and skills of the concept/inquiry at hand.

Full/Complete inquiry facilitates three or more of the following items:

1. Not only encourages students to clarify provided questions, but recommends posing new questions for study relevant to the student's understanding with prompts (extended areas for inquiry) that are related to appropriate NSES.
   
   
2. Encourages learners to determine investigative procedure, methodologies, and data to collect.
   
   
3. Encourages students to use their prior knowledge and skills.
   
   
4. Explicitly embeds instruction that directs learner to construct, consider, state, investigate, or evaluate alternative explanations. Example prompts are provided.
   
   
5. Explicitly embeds instruction to help make connections between inquiry and current scientific knowledge, providing URL links or content for further examination that facilitates conceptual ties and versus stating relationships explicitly.
   
   
6. Explicitly embeds instruction that directs learners to communicate their findings and receive critique. Directions are provided that encourage communicating reasonable and logical arguments to critiques.