Landmark Lessons in Inquiry Journeys
Every Inquiry Journey’s Inquiry is punctuated by Landmark Lessons. Learn how these lessons have a specific function that shapes the direction of your Inquiry.
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Assessment in Inquiry Journeys
Learn more about how Inquiry Journeys takes the struggle out of creating assessments, providing teachers with formative assessments in every lesson and summative assessment support across Inquiries.
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Using Canvas to Create Assignments
Explore how teachers and students use Canvas to assign and complete inquirED lessons.
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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.
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Creating an Inquiry-Based Classroom Culture Participant Notecatcher
Download and use this note catcher for the Creating an Inquiry-Based Classroom Culture activity.
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Inquiry Challenge Statement Frame: Inquiry Journeys
Download and use this Inquiry Challenge Statement Frame for Inquiry Journeys.
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🗓️ Assessment in Inquiry
Inquiry Journeys and World History are embedded with a variety of multimodal assessment opportunities for teachers to measure student learning. In this course, participants explore the assessment cycle and various assessment tools, and connect them to the needs of...
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How to Register, Attend, and Change Enrollment for Events
Learn how to register for an event, find directions to the event before it starts, and modify or cancel an existing registration.
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Preparing for Your Presentation Product
Discover the ins and outs of Presentation Product design, creation, presentation, and assessment.
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Reading Strategy: Procedures
Varying how students engage with a text is an excellent strategy when there are diverse reading levels in the classroom. These common reading procedures may be effective in your classroom, but this list is by no means exhaustive. Note that...
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QFT Slides
Use these slides to support your students through the steps of the QFT.
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Anticipation Guide Template
Using an Anticipation Guide is an excellent way to ensure students have a clear direction and purpose for their reading. In the center column, write main ideas, key details, and important concepts you want students to be on the lookout...
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Analyzing Student Work: The Power of Collaboration Participant Resources
Here are protocols for analyzing student work.
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Analyzing Student Work: Connecting Teacher Practice to Student Learning Outcomes Participant Resources
Here are resources for analyzing student work.
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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.
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Experience Inquiry: Equitable Discussion Strategies Notecatcher
Download and use this note catcher for the Experience Inquiry: Equitable Discussion Strategies activity.
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Student Log In with Clever
Learn more about this guide, which is designed for classroom teachers using Clever for student access to inquirED’s curriculum.
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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....
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Accessing Spanish Materials in Legacy 2.0
Click on any material to launch the pop-up with download and assignment options, and you will notice a drop-down menu in the bottom-right corner to toggle between English- and Spanish-language versions.
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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.
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Meeting Needs and Wants Overview
Communities are created to meet our common needs, giving us a sense of belonging, trust, care, and safety. In the Meeting Needs and Wants Inquiry, students investigate the Inquiry Question, "How can we work together to meet community needs and...
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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...
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inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices & Reflection Tools Introduction
inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices and Reflection Tools support teachers in creating an inquiry based classroom.
