Your biggest challenge with this chapter may well be convincing your students that an overview of the processes of scientific inquiry is an important consideration. Part of the reason students believe this is that few instructors apply and correlate scientific inquiry into the bulk of their courses.
Scientific inquiry becomes almost an isolated entity.
If you want the process of scientific inquiry to become real to your students, you have several choices. All involve a continuous reminder to the students of what is happening in science. I offer three possible approaches. Other equally valid approaches certainly exist. The first approach is to stress this chapter now and then to follow through with this process throughout your course.