The Inquiry Advocate Course is designed for teacher leaders, coaches, or other designated individuals who will be supporting teachers as they implement inquirED Social Studies. Each session aims to enhance participants’ knowledge, skills, and strategies to address common challenges that...
Download and use this note catcher to organize your thoughts and observations as you advance through the "Experience the QFT" session.
Explore how teachers and students use Schoology to assign and complete inquirED lessons.
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.
Learn more about the Inquiry Skills, a set of five powerful skills, that are used throughout the inquiry process to generate questions, conduct sustained investigations, and take informed action. The development of these skills is integral to the success...
Download and use this note catcher to organize your thoughts and observations as you advance through "Literacy Connections."
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...
Now that you’ve selected inquirED’s curriculum for adoption, it’s time to form a plan for its successful implementation in your district. The best implementation plan is one that is teacher-focused, comprehensive, efficient, and replicable. To support the creation of your...
The following are ideas that demonstrate the variety of ways students could take informed action in response to an Inquiry Question in the Influence Inquiry.
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...
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...
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...
Discover the ins and outs of MultiProduct design, creation, presentation, and assessment.
Idea Clustering allows students to see the connections their ideas have with others’ ideas, supporting the development of collaborative projects or topics of investigation. Use this process to help establish interest groups for collaborative work, or to synthesize many diverse...
Participants: Any educator using or supporting others with inquirED Social Studies Overview: In this Professional Learning Community, you will deepen your understanding of inquirED Social Studies through a series of curriculum based professional learning sessions facilitated by the inquirED Partner Experience...
Use these slides to support emergent readers through the steps of the QFT.
How does Suzanne Fraser, Special Education Strategist in Iowa City, IA, support her diverse learners so they get the most out of Inquiry Journeys? Read this month's spotlight to find out!
A gallery walk presents a series of compelling sources that students can respond to quickly, such as photographs, works of art, or images of artifacts. Students circulate through the materials and respond in writing or through discussion. Use this format...
When students are working independently, it's helpful to have a system in place for students to get help. The Queue, Cups, and Sheets are three systems that can help.
As students engage in collaborative work, they often benefit from the structure of assigned group roles.
Participants: This session is designed for School Leaders in buildings that will be implementing inquirED's inquiry-based social studies curriculum. Overview: In this session, you will be oriented to the inquirED's social studies curriculum. You will explore the inquiry-based teaching practices...
Learn how district leaders can review and manage school lists and sharing settings in inquirED and connected SSO platforms like Clever or ClassLink.
Explore key strategies for scaffolding critique practices.
