Teaching of Inquiry at Althouse

I had an interesting discussion with several science student who were general science and a physics students. One of the students is in one of the other biology sections as well. During our discussion the idea of inquiry came up (from me) and I was shocked to discover that none of them had any idea what I was talking about. When I tried to describe it and indicate that the way we teach science at high school is about (and is) to go under a significant change to teaching via inquiry I was met with a great deal of resistance from these other students who couldn't imagine teaching science this way. I found this very surprising as inquiry has been such a strong emphasis in my chemistry and biology classes. I therefore assumed it was being universally taught to science students at Althouse.
I was definitely disappointed to find that it isn't as due to my science experience I am well aware that our current teaching methods do not reflect the way science is really done and I am very excited to use the inquiry method.
Perhaps all those that teach science at Althouse should meet and discuss how they are teaching us to teach! I think it is critical to teach using inquiry and for future science teachers to seriously reflect on how science is taught versus how science is done.
All of the students I was talking to were very disbelieving when I tried to convince them that the hallowed "scientific method" taught in schools bears little to no relation to how science is really done. This is very unfortunate as they will all just continue to perpetuate traditional science teaching.
I for one and very excited that I am expected to teach inquiry. It will be a challenge but one I certainly welcome and that I am hopeful will help students to enjoy science.