All Activities
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Conver-stations
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).
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Analyzing Student Work: Collaborating with Students Notecatcher
Download and use this note catcher for the Analyzing Student Work activity.
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Materials & Prep
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.
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Time Saving Tips in Inquiry Journeys
Teachers often customize lnquiry Journeys to fit into the instructional time they have. Here are some ways teachers have customized lessons in order to save time.
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Implementation Journey Assessment
This assessment is intended to support the implementation leader in assessing where their district is on their implementation journey.
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inquirED Social Studies Video Library
Watch short videos that bring Inquiry Journeys and World History teaching to life. This library features classroom practices, instructional strategies, and insights from educators that support the implementation of inquiry-driven social studies.
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Question Formulation Technique: Protocol Guide
The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) was developed by the Right Question Institute to help anyone produce, improve, and prioritize questions. Use it to generate Investigation Questions that will help students address meaningful, targeted content.
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Supportive Strategies for Language & Learning
inquirED has developed a toolbox for supporting MLLs that incorporates asset-based teaching strategies that support language development alongside content learning.
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What is Informed Action?
Informed action helps students transform their content knowledge into action and connect it with their lived experience. It requires students to use what they've learned to inspire, change behaviors, solve a problem, or serve an audience. When an Inquiry promotes...
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Printing Lesson Plans
Learn how to print lesson plans, slides, and materials from inquirED to easily prepare for instruction or share resources with students.
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Inquiry Print Builder
Select and compile components of an Inquiry into a print-ready document that will be emailed directly to you, making it easy to bulk print materials and plan ahead.
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Changing Your Timezone in the Inquiry Hub
Learn how to change your time zone in the Inquiry Hub.
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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...
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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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Strategies for Successful Implementation
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...
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Users List Management for SSO Districts Using Clever and ClassLink
Learn how district leads in Clever or ClassLink districts, can use the Users List to review rostered teachers and students, sync roster updates, search for users, and send invitation emails.
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inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices & Reflection Tools
inquirED's Inquiry Teaching Practices and Reflection Tools support teachers in creating an inquiry based classroom.
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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."
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Why Inquiry Skills Matter in K–5 Social Studies Classrooms
How do students become curious, capable, and future-ready learners? This post explores inquirED’s five essential Inquiry Skills—core to every lesson and carefully sequenced to help students build knowledge and apply it meaningfully.
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Reading Strategy: Summarize and Retell
In order for students to make deep connections to text, it is important that they first have basic comprehension of the explicitly stated facts and “right there” information.
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The Power of Informed Action in Social Studies
Discover the power of informed action in transforming social studies classrooms. Learn about its benefits, real-world applications, and how it engages students in meaningful and creative ways.
