The students then created a step-by-step procedure for their investigation as a group. During the first investigation I chose a group to share the procedure with and I tried to follow their instructions. This was done because about half of the class, especially the seventh graders, had never written a procedure and it was important for them to know how to write a procedure correctly so they could follow it during the investigation. During guided inquiry, only the materials and problem are provided by the teacher for students to investigate (Colburn, 2000). Students are then left to devise their own procedure for finding a solution. Since I provided the example of the procedure, the activities are considered Structured