Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.
This post is part 1 in my inquiry series. To learn more about inquiry click through to see my many other posts about inquiry. If you are new to my blog,
Inquiry-based learning essentials for engaging and equipping 21st-century learners. Learn about the different types of inquiry.
What if you were able to teach all of your subject areas, and all you needed to do was pre-make ONE, maybe two slides?
You hear it all of the time. What’s inquiry-based learning? What is an inquiry-based lesson? It seems to be all the rage in education...
What do you get? • 32 word cards relating to immigration • Inquiry questions based on the content description for year six History strand of the Australian Curriculum How could you use this? • Classroom display board • Flash cards • Word pots • Class dictionary Australian Curriculum Links ACHHK115 ...
Learn more about inquiry projects and how they help engage students in learning. Similar to project-based learning, students inquire about a chosen topic.
Over the past few years, I have been incorporating inquiry circles into my classroom through Social Studies and Science. Inquiry circles are a lot like most research projects. I would say the main difference is how they start. NOW AVAILABLE… One Stop Teacher Memberships Our grade-level memberships provide the BIGGEST savings on ALL One […]
This product was created to support my year 7 students when first learning about a historical inquiry during their study of the Ancient past. Students were asked to formulate inquiry questions under the headings "Context, Nature, Purpose and Significance" when acting as a historian and analysing an artefact. To begin with, they found this incredibly difficult. After creating this product, my students now understood the terminology of context, nature, purpose and significance and could formulate questions under each heading and identify questions to sort under these headings. The product includes: Posters to define the historical concepts of CONTEXT, NATURE, PURPOSE, SIGNIFICANCE Smaller sized posters on one page as a handout. Sorting activity of related questions Scaffolds and or graphic organisers/organizers to scaffold the writing and sorting of inquiry questions for specific artefacts (Tutankhamen's death mask, Hammurabi Law code, The Great Pyramid of Giza, Athenian coins, Corinthian Bronze Helmet, Terracotta Warriors and a blank template to add your own artefacts). Research pages for note taking. Other Products you may like: Year 7 History – (Australia) Learning GOALS & Success Criteria Posters. Years 7 - 10 History Learning Goals and Success Criteria Bundle (Australian)
A few years ago, the staff at my school began learning about inquiry research. We used the book, Comprehension & Collaboration: Inqu...
Over the past few years, I have been incorporating inquiry circles into my classroom through Social Studies and Science. Inquiry circles are a lot like most research projects. I would say the main difference is how they start. NOW AVAILABLE… One Stop Teacher Memberships Our grade-level memberships provide the BIGGEST savings on ALL One […]
The biggest question, when I'm planning an IB PYP unit of inquiry is, at what level is my class in terms of experience and initiative when it comes to inquiry? In other words, which level of student inquiry will I be planning around - structured...
A few years ago, the staff at my school began learning about inquiry research. We used the book, Comprehension & Collaboration: Inqu...
"A Journey of Exploration" We are finishing up our unit on exploration. Highlights of this unit included- *Exploring and hiking behind our school where students saw crystals in the red clay, a boar's skull, moss, large rocks with geodes, plants, bugs, an abandoned car and much more. They were happy to be surrounded by nature and were fully immersed in exploring and discovering new things! *Mystery Skype Sessions Students are hooked on skyping other schools and using maps and other resources to put the clues together to find out where in the world the schools are located. I am busy setting up more skype sessions! Our Skype Bulletin Board The clues are posted around the map. We wrote postcards to our new Mystery Skype friends and we are waiting on postcards to display around the clues. Read the clues below and see if you can figure out where the mystery schools are located. We are refining our own clues for tomorrow's upcoming Mystery Skype session. *Students also acted as cartographers and created maps. We explored how a compass works and then used the compass during our explorations around school. Next up: Student led conferences, diving into our ocean unit, an ocean play (if I can find the music cd), report cards, ... No wonder I can't sleep...
In response to my questions on the Inquiry Dry Spell post I wrote Edna (@whatedsaid) posed some questions to get me thinking about inquiry in my Science classes. She wrote the following on her post…
The past is everything that ever happened to anyone, anywhere. There is too much history to remember all of it. And new “history” is being created every day. We put considerable effort into learning and remembering that which is historically significant, but have you considered how are those choices made? People who do not think
It’s not just how darn cute the kids look, or how much the parents oooh and ahhh over what a great event it is, (we all need those pats on the back) but it’s the fact that I know how much the kids have gotten out of this project and how hard they’ve worked to […]
Use this one simple question to help bring inquiry and historical thinking into your Middle School Social Studies classroom.
Ever wondered what the difference is between these student-centred methods of inquiry learning? Read on to find out what makes them different.
Practical tips and real classroom examples for creating impactful activities for your next thematic history unit.
A Kindergarten blog about effective teaching and making learning fun.
Students follow the trek of early humans toward global expansion through inquiry-based lessons using resources to hypothesize responses to organizing questions.
Practical tips and real examples from a US history teacher who puts the DBQ essay at the center of instruction.
Guiding inquiry-based learning centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question.
The IB encourages teachers to facilitate learning, versus "teaching" students. In a PYP classroom a teacher's role is more about guiding le...
Ditch the test and create a writing-centered history classroom in which learning is more meaningful and teaching is actually easier.
At my school, we use Kath Murdoch’s Inquiry Cycle. Many of our staff are new the PYP and new to inquiry-based teaching and learning, so we find this inquiry cycle provides some structure to t…
Connect history and writing with this fun, mini research project! Use this biography card for any unit and any time period in history! Students choose or are assigned an important person in history to research. Students research the years lived, historical time period, location, early life, and si...
A compilation of the best ideas I've seen for an awesome detective classroom theme.
At my school, we use Kath Murdoch’s Inquiry Cycle. Many of our staff are new the PYP and new to inquiry-based teaching and learning, so we find this inquiry cycle provides some structure to t…
The inquiry-based learning defined with different types and examples.
Practical tips and real classroom examples for creating impactful activities for your next thematic history unit.
Integrating art and content in the ELA classroom. Tips and resources.
