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....
Explore how teachers and students use Canvas to assign and complete inquirED lessons.
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...
The Rocketship Protocol is an interactive movement-based strategy that allows students to demonstrate understanding by responding physically to prompts or examples. Students use a “rocketship blast off” movement to indicate a correct or appropriate response and remain seated with a...
Artifact studies challenge students to analyze a primary source by identifying evidence, explaining interpretations, and drawing conclusions. Use this format when students analyze an unfamiliar primary source individually, in small groups, or as a whole class.
Get an overview of the four District Leader accounts at inquirED and the permissions associated with each.
Download and use this note catcher for the Analyzing Student Work activity.
Learn how to change your Inquiry Journeys curriculum language settings to Spanish so lessons, instructional materials, and overviews display in Spanish.
Learn how to locate formative and summative assessments, and their guides, to effectively support growth in inquiry-based learning.
Learn how to customize the Inquiry Product that students will develop.
Use these tools to observe inquiry-based instruction, reflect on implementation, and support continuous improvement across classrooms and teams.
Learn how to access and add curriculum for additional grade levels included in your inquirED subscription.
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.
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...
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 learn more about the process in 90 seconds.
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.
Access lesson prep tools, step-by-step guidance, and assessments designed to help each lesson run smoothly.
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 Inquiry Journeys module.
Investigation stations provide a source or sources that students use to gather information. Sources might include text, images, artifacts, videos, or even step-by-step activities, and are often clustered by subtopic. Students might choose stations based on interest, or they might...
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.
In this session, participants explore how social studies instruction serves as a powerful lever for improving literacy outcomes. Through discussion, research analysis, and classroom examples, participants examine how building background knowledge strengthens reading comprehension and supports student success on assessments....
Here are protocols for analyzing student work.
Download and use this note catcher to organize your thoughts and observations as you advance through the "Differentiation in Inquiry" course.
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