What Does Inquiry in SS Look Like?
by susan chen
1. Critical Thinking
1.1. teachers can use it to differentiate students thinking levels
1.1.1. ex: examie images
2. Benchmarks of Historical Thinking
2.1. Establish Historical significance
2.1.1. ex: students take different perspectives and look from other people's point of view
2.2. Use Primary Source Evidence
2.3. Identify Continuity and change
2.4. Analyze cause and consequence
2.5. Take historical perspective
3. Throughline Questioning
3.1. provoke teachers and students to make connection
3.1.1. themselves
3.1.2. subject matter
3.1.3. society they live in
3.1.4. ex: redesign school for 21st century
4. Critical or Dangerous Teaching
5. inquiry based unit
5.1. find ways to solve problems involve hands on activities
5.2. diving questions
6. Connecting to the real world
6.1. Academic Rigor
6.1.1. Rigour from High Tech High http://vimeo.com/16374899
6.1.2. integrate what students like/ passion about to the the curriculum
6.1.3. Students act and being like a scientist, historian, journalist rather than just studying on the textbooks
6.2. Authenticity
6.2.1. engage
6.2.2. meaningful
6.2.3. connection to the curriculum and see why it is important