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  • LTI LMS Integration Options

    This article helps district leaders understand the LTI integration process for Canvas LTI and Schoology LTI, ensuring a seamless connection to Inquiry Journeys through their district’s LMS.

    • Learner Support Guide: Executive Functioning

      The inquiry-based classroom provides opportunities for student-driven exploration. While this can be highly motivating and engaging, it also places high demands on students' executive functioning skills. Consider the following strategies to provide scaffolds as individual or whole-class supports of executive...

      • Overview of Rostering Options

        Learn about inquirED’s rostering options for districts and schools. This article explains each method, with key benefits and considerations to help you select the right setup.

        • Literacy Connections Notecatcher

          Download and use this note catcher to organize your thoughts and observations as you advance through the "Literacy Connections" course.

          • 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...

            • inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices Learning Walk Tool

              This learning walk form assesses implementation of inquirED’s Inquiry-Based Teaching Practices. Use the data collected to inform professional learning supports. Check all “look-fors” you observe and track descriptive notes in the boxes provided. Note: Typically, you will not observe all...

              • See Think Wonder

                See Think Wonder is a protocol that helps students make observations, form inferences, and generate questions about a visual source or artifact. Use it to spark wonderings or introduce new topics.

                • inquirED Literacy Practices and Supports Framework

                  Literacy is woven into the fabric of elementary social studies learning. As students build social studies content knowledge and disciplinary skills, they engage in deep literacy work: interrogating diverse sources, evaluating and constructing arguments, examining differing points of view and...

                  • Lesson Planning Notecatcher

                    Understanding how a lesson fits into an Inquiry and thinking through how you will support students in meeting a lesson’s objectives can be very helpful in preparing for instruction. Use this tool to help you plan your next Inquiry Journeys...

                    • Back-to-School Night Slides

                      Check out these editable slide decks introducing inquirED that you can make your own for your Back to School or Curriculum Night! See the slides for Inquiry Journeys or the slides for World History.

                      • Learner Support Guide: Evidence-Based Conclusions

                        Drawing evidence-based conclusions is a key skill that allows them to demonstrate their learning and communicate conclusions. Students may benefit from additional support or challenge when practicing this skill.

                        • Text Dependent Questions Graphic Organizer

                          If students are reading independently, in small groups, or in pairs, consider creating several text-dependent questions that require students to stop, locate evidence to support a response, and write the response.

                          • What are inquirED's Inquiry Skills?

                            Learn more about the Inquiry Skills, a set of five powerful skills, that are used throughout the inquiry process to generate questions, conduct sustained investigations, and take informed action. The development of these skills is integral to the success...