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All rights reserved. The tension between the goal of student autonomy and their need for structure and guidance is a necessary one. Guided inquiry seems an appropriate balancing point for my middle school students. If one is to give students a chance to define the questions to be investigated, one must be prepared to be flexible. Furthermore, the subject matter and available materials need to lend themselves to this sort of exploration.