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inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices Overview

inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices include eight distinct practices.

Assessment in Inquiry Journeys Notecatcher (Live Session)

Download and use this note catcher to organize your thoughts and observations as you advance through "Assessment in Inquiry."

Culturally Responsive Social Studies Notecatcher

Download and use this note catcher to organize your thoughts and observations as you advance through "Culturally Responsive Social Studies."

Unpacking a Module Notecatcher: World History

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 World History module.

Experience Inquiry Series: Creating an Inquiry-Based Classroom Culture

Assessments and Assessment Guides

Learn how to locate formative and summative assessments, and their guides, to effectively support growth in inquiry-based learning.

Adding Curriculum

Learn how to access and add curriculum for additional grade levels included in your inquirED subscription.

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.

District Leader Account Types

Get an overview of the four District Leader accounts at inquirED and the permissions associated with each.

Student Log in with the inquirED Assignment Portal

Learn how students log in to the inquirED Assignment Portal through Clever, ClassLink, or manual rostering.

Analyzing Student Work: The Power of Collaboration Student Work Analysis Packet

Un-level That Text! Integrating Literacy and Elementary Social Studies

Social studies and literacy instruction can’t really be separated: social studies requires the examination of complex texts as sources of evidence. If we want students to seek answers to complex questions, conduct sustained investigations, and construct conclusions based on facts...

Making the Case for Elementary Social Studies: The ELA Connection

There is a growing body of research that indicates that decreased instruction time in social studies has been detrimental to students. Check out this webinar recording and blog post to see how social studies can create better readers and writers.

Navigating a Lesson

Learn how to navigate and use key lesson features in Inquiry Journeys, including lesson overviews, materials, standards, instructional supports, and assignments.

Reading Strategy: Text Comprehension

Strategies that support students in understanding key concepts and details as they read promote deeper analysis of the text after they finish. Here are several strategies that teachers can use to support students, and students can use to support themselves....

Reading Strategy: Preparing to Read Complex Texts

Preparing students to read a complex text includes helping them develop habits practiced by experienced readers, such as using their overall knowledge of a text to support comprehension and meaning making. This can help students persist in reading even when...

Yes, and...

Yes, and... is a structured protocol that helps students respond and add to others’ ideas rather than critiquing or modifying them. Use it to support students’ development of individual project ideas and their ability to thought-partner with each other.

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...

Learner Support Guide: Collaborative Work

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...

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...

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