We all want to encourage students to do more independent research, but it can be challenging to keep students engaged in all parts of the process without significant support.This set of journal prompts takes children through all steps in the Kath Murdoch Inquiry Cycle, often used in International Baccalaureate (IB) classrooms, and well aligned with Montessori classrooms or any other classrooms that want to increase student autonomy while also scaffolding the research process. This is also a grea