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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Work out your core, Common Core State Standards, through the first workshop in a series of 15 designed for educators. Inquiry-based activities designed for all content areas and grade levels explore the shifts to new standards,...
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EngageNY

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 15

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Sound: A Lesson in Length and Pitch

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this classroom guided inquiry lesson, students will rotate through five stations of various sound instruments to look at how length affects pitch. The five sound stations include: straw flutes, xylophone, water phone, palm pipes, and...
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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: What Do Inquiry Based Lesson Plans Look Like?

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Inquiry-based lesson plans are usually referred to as "facilitation plans," to help teachers remember their role as facilitator of learning, rather than fount of all wisdom. The notion also helps teachers structure lessons more loosely...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Shared Inquiry Discussion

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
Students learn to generate ideas with a clear focus in response to questions while participating in a shared inquiry discussion. Included are shared inquiry guidelines, and tips on discussing fiction and non-fiction books using this method.
Professional Doc
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Ed Online: Inquiry Based Learning: Inquiry in Action: In Classrooms

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Three sets of videos - ten in all - showing teachers using inquiry-based learning in real classrooms.
Professional Doc
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Concept to Classroom: Inquiry Based Learning

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
One of eleven workshops presented by Concept to Classroom, this workshop on Inquiry-based Learning takes you through four major steps (explanation, demonstration, exploration, and implementation) to learn about it, then put it into...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Webcams in the Classroom: Animal Inquiry and Observation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Observe animal behavior patterns and their habitats using one of the many webcams broadcasting from zoos and aquariums around the United States and the world in this inquiry-based activity that focuses on observation logs, class...
Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Kindergarten Inquiry: Investigating Leaves

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will investigate leaves by using their five senses and journaling their findings in this lesson. Journal will record information in a matrix to enable students to see the how things are related.
Activity
American Chemical Society

Inquiry in Action: Temperature Affects Dissolving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Answer the question of whether cocoa mix dissolves in hot water or cold water in this activity. Help students see how temperature affects the rate at which solids dissolve. This lesson includes teacher and student instructions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Demographic Transition Model Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson students use the Demographic Transition Model (DTM) to take an in-depth look at four different countries.
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: American Imperialism

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The American Imperialism Unit covers the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. The lessons approach historical inquiry from different angles. One asks young scholars to consider...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Battle of Lexington

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry instructional activity allows students to practice sourcing, corroboration, and...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Thomas Nast

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry activity allows students to analyze two cartoons drawn by Thomas Nast, and to...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Philippine American War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to examine how advocates and critics of American...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: u.s. Entry Into Wwi

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this historical inquiry instructional activity, students address the question, "What changed between 1914 and 1917 that caused the U.S. to enter WWI?" to corroborate a textbook account with two...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: Booker T. Washington vs w.e.b. Du Bois

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to read a speech of Booker T. Washington's and a selection...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Louisiana Purchase

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary sources to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. In this document-based inquiry lesson, a timeline of the Louisiana Purchase along with letters by Federalist leaders...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Mapping the New World

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students study two 17th-century maps of Virginia and think...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Sharecropping

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to critically evaluate their classroom textbook's account...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Stamp Act

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to engage in key aspects of historical thinking as they...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Reading Like a Historian: Federalists & Anti Federalists

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson allows students to read Federalist and Anti-Federalist positions from the...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: The Puritans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Young scholars solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson plan allows students to source, corroborate, and contextualize...
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Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Great Awakening

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students solve a problem surrounding a historical question by reading primary source documents. This historical inquiry lesson about the Great Awakening allows students to critically examine three...

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