*Secondary Inquiry Activity

What can inquiry create in the classroom?

What can inquiry complicate in the classroom?

Scaffolding Curiosity - Inquiry Example

Watch this -

• • Ask students for general observations.

  • Watch again and ask them to focus on a particular region of the country and repeat the observations.

Introduce them to this tool - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/15/us/politics/swing-history.html

You can go a number of ways from here -

• • Students can again do general observations.

  • You could have students look at a particular election.

  • You could also have students watch a particular state over time.

  • They could be watching for trends, anomalies, you could ask them to come up with which state was most consistent, least.

After all this observing and analyzing, ask them what questions they have about these trends and patterns and presidential elections.

Possible continuation of the inquiry - have students sample examples from The Living Room Candidate - http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

Students are to look at a particular election year, reference the graphic and start to make some connections about what was happening at that time.  Students would then (either) create a new campaign ad for the current candidates in the 'old' style or create a new campaign ad for an old candidate in the new style.  You could give them the charge of appealing to a particular swing state... now or then.  This can all move in the direction of having them assess their own issue preferences, what they are concerned with and how that compared in history to other times.

Evaluate Inquiry

Sample Units - https://sites.google.com/site/sampleunitsslaubdpbl/

Choose a lesson/unit that relates to your teaching group.

• • Break down what they did for questioning  research, discussion, creating and reflection.

  • What standards are being addressed?

  • How is student voice being valued?

  • Do you think the timeline was realistic?

  • What technology was used?  How might it have been used differently?

  • Was the student work shared with the community?  If so, how so?  If not, what could have been done to provide a greater audience for the work?

Scaffolding Curiosity

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Other examples of scaffolding curiosity -

• https://sites.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/american-identity-unit/

• https://sites.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/buildinghistory/

• https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Tj5-hfux_hn7Q-JUYmU_LrhZb2xJzTq6LYYmhL74POE

• https://sites.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/what-if-history-project/

• http://dlaufenberg.pbworks.com/w/page/10491841/Power%20of%20One

What is the role of the teacher in an inquiry driven classroom?

Links on Inquiry Education - http://delicious.com/dlaufenberg/inquiryed