Inquiry based learning social studies

A few years ago, the staff at my school began learning about inquiry research. We used the book, Comprehension & Collaboration: Inqu...

As you begin to learn about inquiry-based Social Studies education, you might find the quality pre-written inquiries are hard to come by. In the post, I've collected the best that the internet currently has to offer.

Don't let inquiry be intimidating! You can get started with these five questions for inquiry thinking in your Middle School Social Studies classroom. Grab this free list of five questions to begin with inquiry. #socialstudies #historyteacher #inquiry

Use this one simple question to help bring inquiry and historical thinking into your Middle School Social Studies classroom.

Creating an inquiry based learning space for middle schoolers with building an inquiry wall. Grab free resources to learn how to create a inquiry learning wall in the classroom to provoke ideas and curiosity in your learners.

Are you new to social studies interactive notebooks or lapbooks? Read about how I design my lapbooks and how this method of delivering instruction will have your students more engaged and organized with the content. Inquiry-based design helps move students through 3 supporting questions and toward a final culminating written response. Learn about the different sections as well as tips and tricks to using lapbooks. My elementary students love using interactive notebooks and yours will too!

Assignments that are bigger than a lesson and smaller than a unit are a good way to experiment with inquiry-based learning.

Check out these 50 (!!) project based learning activities to engage and excite students and get you started with PBL.

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 […]