What does Inquiry in Social Studies Look Like
by Jessie Hettrick
1. Student work
1.1. If the work is worth doing, it will be meaningful
1.2. Would you want to do the work?
2. Good assessment
2.1. Can help students to improve
3. Inquiry Based Lessons
3.1. Ring road in Calgary
3.1.1. Stakeholders meeting
3.1.2. website creation
3.2. Mayor Forum
3.2.1. Student led forum online
3.2.2. Encouraging others to vote
3.3. Immigrants
3.3.1. Visual representation of a culture
3.3.2. Speaking with people from that culture
3.4. Designing a proposal for an area of Calgary
4. Critical Thinking
4.1. Weigh the evidence
4.2. Identify bias
4.3. determine perspectives
5. Historical Thinking
5.1. use primary source evidence
5.2. Analyze
5.3. Identify continuity and change
5.4. Find significance
6. Throughline Questioning
6.1. Asking question to make connections to...
6.1.1. Self
6.1.2. Society
6.1.3. Subject matter
7. What it is to be human!
7.1. What are the different disciplines doing? That's what the students should be doing.
8. The real world
8.1. Students engaging and interacting in the real world
8.2. Authenticity
8.2.1. Meaning
8.2.2. Asking questions
8.2.3. Issues
8.2.4. Controversy