What Does Inquiry in SS Look Like?

1. Going beyond the school walls

2. Critical Thinking

2.1. weighing evidence

2.2. identifying bias

2.3. determining perspective

3. Historical Thinking

3.1. establish historical significance

3.2. Use primary source evidence

3.3. identify continuity and change

3.4. analyze cause/consequence

3.5. historical perspectives

3.6. understand ethical dimensions

4. Throughline questioning

4.1. Provocative and relevant questions

4.2. connections between self, subject matter, and society in which they live

5. Critical/Dangerous Teaching

5.1. unmasked questions about 'what and how' students learn in schools

6. all facets of SS considered

6.1. Economics

6.2. Geography

6.3. History

6.4. Political Science

6.5. Globalization

6.6. Sociology/Anthropology

7. Academic Rigour

7.1. Passionate adults pursuing inquiry and inviting the students to do the same

7.2. creativity

7.3. sophisticated questions

8. Authenticity

8.1. engagement in real world issues/controversies

9. Looking beyond activities, and asking why?, how?

10. Active Engagement

11. Galileo's Rubric