Participants: This session is designed for any teacher interested in learning more about how to create an Inquiry Based Classroom Culture. Overview: In this interactive session, teachers will explore concrete actions that can foster a culture of inquiry in their...
Participants: This session is designed for anyone who will be using inquirED’s Updated 2.1 platform to teach Inquiry Journeys. Overview: Get down the basics of navigating and teaching using inquirED’s updated platform.
This session is designed to take teachers through the process of understanding and planning to teach an inquirED Social Studies module. This will include demonstrating how teachers can utilize both what is provided within the platform and what they know...
Participants: This session is designed for Inquiry Advocates and School or District Leaders who will provide support to teachers using Inquiry Journeys, their social studies curriculum. Overview: As an Inquiry Advocate, you are taking on an important role to support teachers using Inquiry...
Participants: This session is designed for any teacher interested in learning more about how to support students in providing peer feedback. Overview: Although teachers are often experts at providing meaningful feedback to their students, teaching students to provide feedback to...
Participants: This session is designed for teachers and those who provide support to teachers using Inquiry Journeys. PLC members are especially encouraged to attend. Overview:Â During this session, participants will engage in reflection, celebrate success, identify challenges, and experience collaborative...
Participants: This session is designed for teachers who will be using Inquiry Journeys. Overview: During this session you will be introduced to Inquiry Journeys, your social studies curriculum. You will explore the inquiry process that is present in every unit...
Participants: This session is designed for any teacher interested in learning more about the QFT (Question Formulation Technique). Overview: Learn how to help your students generate investigation questions by experiencing the QFT yourself. Facilitation tips and resources for implementing the...
To help everyone get started this year, we asked teachers to share what they learned in their first year of teaching Inquiry Journeys.
inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices include eight distinct practices.
Concentric Circles get students talking to different classmates, allowing them to hear from a variety of perspectives in response to a series of prompts. This protocol fosters understanding of different perspectives while promoting students’ speaking and listening skills.
Read-alouds facilitate an exploration of a text through a shared reading experience. Use this format when a shared experience will enrich the exploration or make a complex text more accessible.
A Predict Learn Conclude prompts students to make inferences, test those inferences while gathering information, and construct conclusions. Use this strategy as a pre-assessment, as an anticipatory set, or to assess student thinking.Â
Investigation stations provide a source or sources that students use to gather information. Sources might include text, images, artifacts, videos, or even step-by-step activities, and are often clustered by subtopic. Students might choose stations based on interest, or they might...
Unpacking a module will help you successfully customize lessons to fit into your schedule and meet the needs of your students. Use this tool to help you think through your next Inquiry Journeys module.
Access lesson prep tools, step-by-step guidance, and assessments designed to help each lesson run smoothly.
The Rocketship Protocol is an interactive movement-based strategy that allows students to demonstrate understanding by responding physically to prompts or examples. Students use a “rocketship blast off” movement to indicate a correct or appropriate response and remain seated with a...
Artifact studies challenge students to analyze a primary source by identifying evidence, explaining interpretations, and drawing conclusions. Use this format when students analyze an unfamiliar primary source individually, in small groups, or as a whole class.
Learn how to keep students moving throughout the process of creation.
Get an overview of the four District Leader accounts at inquirED and the permissions associated with each.
Learn how to log in, navigate Inquiry Journeys, and understand the structure of units and lessons so you feel confident from the first click.
Download and use this note catcher for the Analyzing Student Work activity.Â
Learn how to change your Inquiry Journeys curriculum language settings to Spanish so lessons, instructional materials, and overviews display in Spanish.
Learn how to locate formative and summative assessments, and their guides, to effectively support growth in inquiry-based learning.
