All Activities : inquirED

Mid-Year Reflection Notecatcher (Live Session)

Download and use this note catcher to organize your thoughts and observations as you advance through "Mid-Year Reflection."

inquirED’s Professional Learning Sessions

inquirED has created powerful professional learning sessions to support its partners. Explore the available sessions.

Examining Student Work Protocol

Use this protocol to analyze the work of 3 students performing at different levels and consider next steps for supporting students.

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.

Using Dramatic Play: Introduction

Explore how using a dramatic play can help students connect to their learning.

Critique: Gallery Walk

Learn how to utilize a gallery walk to help norm critique behaviors.

A Closer Look at Student Reflection

Learn why reflection is a key component of the inquiry process for students and teachers.

Adding a Flex Lesson

Learn how to add, reorder, or remove Flex Lessons to adapt modules and create accessible learning experiences that reinforce key skills.

Culturally Responsive Education (CRE)

Center identity, representation, and access within inquiry-based social studies. These resources explore how culturally responsive practices shape curriculum design, text selection, knowledge-building, and language support—ensuring all students see themselves reflected in learning and are supported in engaging deeply with complex...

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How to Use Slides

Learn how to preview, present, and customize lesson slides in inquirED. Personalize slide decks to support engagement, differentiation, and accessibility in every lesson.

Printing Lesson Plans

Learn how to print lesson plans, slides, and materials from inquirED to easily prepare for instruction or share resources with students.

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.

The Module Homepage

Learn how to navigate and explore key features of the Module Homepage in Inquiry Journeys, including module overviews, objectives, lesson progress, materials, and standards.

Analyzing Student Work: Collaborating with Students Notecatcher

Download and use this note catcher for the Analyzing Student Work activity.

Assessment: Class Checklists

Learn how class checklists can be a powerful assessment tool for the inquiry classroom.

Examples of Informed Action (Native America)

The following are examples of the variety of ways students from around the country have taken informed action in response to an Inquiry Question in the Native America Inquiry.

QFT Slides

Use these slides to support your students through the steps of the QFT.

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.