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All rights reserved. He provides each group of students with a rich set of materials, a list of possible questions to prompt investigation, and the expectation that they will experiment and document their results. My classroom experimentation this year began with this approach. Rather than providing all the details of an experiment, as in cookbook labs, the structured inquiry approach provides students with both a designated topic that will be the focus of the experiment and the equipment to conduct the experimental work. The goal of this discussion is to help students pose questions or hypotheses about a topic that can be answered using the equipment available and to help students devise an experimental procedure by which the questions or hypotheses can be addressed.