Mission: to target educational goals through inquiry-based strategies
NEW PUBLICATION AVAILABLE - From Caravels to the Constitution by Marjorie Duby at Creative Teaching Press.
Content: Blackline masters - Using word searches, hidden messages, analogies, anagrams, and creative puzzles, students will learn about history while they apply critical-thinking skills. This resource provides students with opportunities to organize and analyze information and to draw conclusions. Extension activities promote practical, informative, narrative, and expository writing skills to help meet the standards. 112 pages [LW405 - From Caravels to the Constitution - $13.99]
The pieces of the Inquiry Unlimited educational puzzle.
Inquiry-based strategies and resources to consider:
Observe how this elementary school educational practitioner made curricula connections while sharing online teacher-created projects and student-created products using her original URL links organized around the Dewey Decimal System in Eureka and Eureka US History and Eureka Science.
How does a practitioner's focus on developing higher order thinking skills promote "Knowing?"
How might Literature Circle roles engage students in inquiry-based discussions?
What might we learn about a student's historical perspective from participation in a 1700s town meeting simulation ?
What might we observe about immigration patterns from analyzing two 1635 passenger lists?
How did our Looney Lobster, travel buddy project and our student, first-person colonial letters involve our students in the curriculum content?
How might we assist students in applying the themes of regional-related literature to their understandings of geography? [ USA A - M resources and N - Z resources]
What social, political, and economic patterns emerge from observing USA timelines?
How might we use our Eureka! URL database to broaden our intermediate grade content?
How do varied literacy resources enrich the classroom culture?
How do Bostonians daily involve themselves in local and global interactions?
How might student and practitioner writing in the first person provide an opportunity for students to becoming engaged in a study of United States westward expansion?
Will a study of the rainforest, its population and ecosystem provide an opportunity for inquiry?
How might the use of reading workshops and writing workshops enhance a study of The House of Dies Drear * ?
How does creating a thematic state artifact box show an understanding of your state?
How might student interpretative skills be developed when using primary sources?
