Inquiry Level II Fast & Curious

the central question around which the inquiry is built

• compelling question

• supporting question

• formative question

• essential question

Answer explanation

"Compelling questions enable us to weave together rigor and relevance in ways that make an inquiry sing."

questions that allow students to focus on important content and build capacity throughout the inquiry

• compelling questions

• supporting questions

• formative questions

• essential questions

Answer explanation

"Supporting questions point to the coherent development of content."

"the hook" so to speak, that sparks student interest and thinking

• Featured Sources

• Formative Task

• Staging the Question

• Taking Informed Action

Answer explanation

"The form of a Staging activity is not unlike an anticipatory set or any other approach to getting an instructional start. The difference lies in the purpose, which is to introduce the entire inquiry. A Staging exercise offers teachers a glimpse into their students' prior knowledge of and disposition towards the topic a t hand."

These offer teachers the opportunity to check in on student content mastery throughout the inquiry

• Featured Sources

• Formative Tasks

• Supporting Questions

• Summative Performance Tasks

Answer explanation

"Formative performance tasks act as a series of learning experiences that enable students to demonstrate their knowledge of the content, concepts, and skills that are needed to produce clear, coherent, and evidence-based arguments."

These are the heart of the inquiry, from which students use their skills to gather the content they need in order to make a claim

• Featured Sources

• Formative Tasks

• Supporting Questions

• Summative Performance Tasks

Answer explanation

"Sources ask a lot of teachers in the design process, but deliver even more. Good sources bring inquiry to life."

The culmination of the inquiry: students make a claim in response to the compelling question

• Thesis

• Formative Tasks

• Taking Informed Action

• Summative Performance Tasks

Answer explanation

"The summative argumentative task should provide an opportunity for students to disagree over their answers to a compelling question. The summative task brings the inquiry to a resolution."

The lesson plan frame for an IDM (Inquiry Design Model) style lesson

• Inquiry Map

• Inquiry Timeline

• Inquiry Planning Guide

• Inquiry Blueprint

Answer explanation

"The IDM Blueprint hardwires in the relationship between questions and argument by consistently highlighting the compelling question that launches the inquiry and the summative argument that brings the inquiry to resolution."

The coherent sequencing of questions to allow students to progress through an inquiry in a meaningful way

• Question Order

• Question Logic

• Question Guide

• Question Steps

Answer explanation

"Put simply, a question logic points to the coherent development of content or subject matter across the supporting questions."

A set of diverse sample responses that could be made and supported in response to the compelling question

• Argument Stems

• Thesis Options

• Claim Connections

• Answer Guide

Answer explanation

"We draft argument stems early in the design process to ensure that our compelling question is functional."

The Essential Elements of Inquiry are...

• Tasks

  Staging

  Argument

• Questions

  Sources

  Claims

• Sources

  Tasks

  Claims

• Claim

  Evidence

  Reasoning

Answer explanation

"At its core, inquiry instruction centers learning around compelling questions. Students use a variety of authentic sources in order to develop a claim in response to the compelling question."