The inquiry-based classroom provides opportunities for collaboration. While this can be highly motivating and engaging, it also places high demands on students’ collaborative work skills. Consider the following strategies to provide scaffolds as individual or whole-class supports during collaborative work...
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.
inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices include eight distinct practices.
This collaborative reflection tool is designed to guide teachers in deepening and continuously improving inquiry-based instruction. This tool can be used as a one-on-one tool for an Inquiry Advocate and teacher or to guide reflective dialogue in a professional learning...
I Like, I Wonder is a protocol that supports students’ ability to share their undeveloped ideas with peers while receiving affirmation and getting initial, low-stakes feedback. Use this format to support critique skills and peer collaboration as new ideas are...
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).
Annotation allows students to actively engage with texts and improve their reading comprehension. Using annotation strategies can help students understand the content on a deeper level and recall concepts for later use. It can also be a lot of fun!...
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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.
Before starting an Inquiry, look at your calendar and create a roadmap to help keep your instruction on track, or to help you stay at the same pace as other teachers in your school or district. Use this tool to...
Learn how to get assistance from the inquirED Support Team with technical or content-related issues.
District leaders can manage sections and sharing rules in inquirED and SSO platforms to ensure accurate rostering.
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...
Learn how to keep students moving throughout the process of creation.
Socratic seminars require students to collaboratively grapple with complex topics. Through the process, students closely read a teacher-selected article, draw evidence from that reading, and then discuss their responses through a structured seminar with peers. Use this format to promote...
Learn which Inquiry Hub resources are available to the public and which require an inquirED account, curriculum access, or specific program access.
Learn how to preview, present, and customize lesson slides in inquirED. Personalize slide decks to support engagement, differentiation, and accessibility in every lesson.
To support teachers in guiding students through meaningful Informed Action, we've developed resources and templates to assist in the co-creation of rubrics. These tools are designed to help translate inquiry products and success criteria into clear, student-friendly assessment frameworks that...
Reading and writing opportunities are embedded throughout Inquiry Journeys lessons. In fact, almost every lesson supports Common Core ELA standards.
inquirED has developed a toolbox for supporting MLLs that incorporates asset-based teaching strategies that support language development alongside content learning.
Issuing the Inquiry Challenge is one of the Landmark Lessons that supports the shift to Taking Informed Action. Creating the Inquiry Challenge Statement is part of this lesson. Watch the video below to learn more about the Inquiry Challenge Statement.
