Unit Roadmap Notecatcher
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...
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 change your Inquiry Journeys curriculum language settings to Spanish so lessons, instructional materials, and overviews display in Spanish.
Find out how to access Inquiry at a Glance videos, explore where they appear in the inquirED platform, and troubleshoot if the videos aren’t loading.
How do the sources teachers choose provide mirrors and windows for students? We explored that question with Cereescia Sandoval, one of inquirED's Learning Experience Designers. Check out the webinar recording and blog post to learn more.
Browse examples of student work created through inquiry-based learning. These artifacts highlight the variety of ways students investigate questions, analyze sources, and communicate their thinking through authentic products and performances.
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...
Download and use this note catcher to organize your thoughts and observations as you advance through the "Differentiation in Inquiry" course.
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.
This article supports teachers who use ClassLink to manage student access to inquirED.
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...
Learn how to use the Materials & Prep tab to organize, access, and track lesson materials efficiently. This guide helps teachers save time and stay organized.
Inquiry Journeys includes a diverse collection of books that support student understanding as they move through an Inquiry. Check out the book list and use the book stickers to help organize resources. The stickers are printable and should be used...
Learn how to access and add curriculum for additional grade levels included in your inquirED subscription.
The Question Formulation Technique, or QFT, was developed by the Right Question Institute as a simple step by step process that helps anyone produce, improve, and prioritize questions. Watch this video to hear about a teacher's journey using the Question...
Explore how inquirED helps teachers assign, customize, and manage digital learning so every student can engage and succeed whether using the inquirED Assignment Portal, Schoology, or Canvas.
The mid-year point is a perfect time to engage in structured, intentional reflection. Read this month’s Spotlight to learn how Christine Phillip, Innovation Coach from Franklin Park District 84, helps teachers and coaches get the most out of reflections.
Simulations facilitate an experience that students can reflect upon to draw conclusions about concepts or ideas. When designing a simulation, avoid those that may be triggering, including asking students to act out inappropriate dynamics or perform another person's identity or...
Here are protocols for analyzing student work.
Leadership is an important part of implementation, and supporting teachers through the learning process of implementing a new curriculum requires strategic and intentional moves. Here are some action steps that other leaders have taken to support their teachers towards implementation...
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.
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.
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.
Learn how district leaders in manually rostered districts can add, edit, and remove schools.