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  • Artifact Study

    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.

    • Investigation Stations

      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...

      • Predict Learn Conclude

        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. 

        • Conver-stations

          Conver-stations allow students to discuss topics in constantly changing small groups. Use this format in response to complex discussion prompts or sources (ex. photos, videos, audio recordings, or written text).

          • Note Card Reflection

            This reflection protocol prompts students to identify key takeaways from a sustained inquiry experience. Use this to support students in sharing their thoughts with the whole class and making connections to others’ ideas.

            • Popcorn Share-Out

              Popcorns challenge students to share their ideas without talking over each other, which is great practice for real-life discussion skills. Use this strategy when it’s not necessary to hear from every single student in response to a prompt or question.

              • Turn and Talk / Shoulder Partners

                Use these strategies to prompt a quick conversation between students who are already seated close together. Because there is no special seating arrangement or protocol required, it is perhaps the most flexible and informal discussion strategy.

                • Customizing a Handout

                  Learn how to customize handouts to meet your students’ needs by editing text, adjusting layouts, and personalizing materials for engagement, differentiation, and accessibility.

                  • What is Informed Action?

                    Informed action helps students transform their content knowledge into action and connect it with their lived experience. It requires students to use what they've learned to inspire, change behaviors, solve a problem, or serve an audience. When an Inquiry promotes...

                    • Global Connections Overview

                      Is it possible to touch a country and its people without ever setting foot there? From the label on a t-shirt to the sticker on a banana, we come into contact with evidence that the items we use have been...

                      • Printing Lesson Resources

                        Learn how to print lesson materials, slides, and plans for teachers and students. Easily access and prepare printable resources from your inquirED lessons.