The Full-Day Kindergarten Program and the Revised (2013) Social Studies, History & Geography curriculum have created a new focus in schools on inquiry-based learning. This session explores some of the big questions around inquiry:
- But what does inquiry look like across different grade levels?
- How can you get students to start developing those deeper questions, and then where do you go, once they have them?
- How is direct instruction a part of the process?
- How do you ensure that these questions align with curriculum expectations?
- What role does assessment play in the process?
This session explores these questions as well as look at different ways that you and your students can both get excited about inquiry!
Audience: K-8
Resources:
- Aviva’s website and Twitter page
- Ministry documents
- Full-Day Kindergarten
- Social Studies, History & Geography
- Growing Success (assessment)
- Asking Effective Questions (Capacity Building Series)
- Provocations
- First Nations unit
- Probability
- Grade 8 History
- Grade 8 Language
- Google doc of many more provocations
- Using Images: Ads directed at children, HSBC Your Point of View, Britannica Image Quest
- Asking deeper questions
- Lisa Donohue: website, 100 Minutes, Formulating questions
- Disciplines of thinking – Grade 1, Grade 5
- The Challenge Game, Try the Challenge Game
- Grade 8 example
- Q-charts
- Inquiry or Direct Instruction?
- Kristi Keery Bishop on Connecting to Inquiry
- Lisa Donohue, My Shifting Perspective
- Guided reading in Grade 5
- Small group instruction
- Guided groups
- Aviva Dunsiger, Blending the Old and the New
- Assessment
- Aviva’s blog post
- Formative assessment with Twitter
- PicCollage in FDK & Grade 5 ex 1, ex 2
- Blogs for self-reflection: Grade 5 and in science
- Video to demonstrating learning: organ system, 3D solids,
- Rubrics
- Kristi Keery-Bishop on re-thinking culminating tasks
- Samples:
- Educators
- Apps
- ExplainEverthing
- Skitch (from Evernote)
- Notability
- nkwery
Related OTF Connects sessions
- A Technological Twist on Inquiry with Aviva Dunsiger
- Delving into Documentation with Aviva Dunsiger
- Observational Assessment with Google Forms with Shadi Yazdan