Practices of Inquiry
Practices in the Inquiry Cycle Questioning Students will independently and collaboratively:
1. Develop compelling questions that promote inquiry around key disciplinary concepts and embedded enduring issues.
2. Develop supporting questions that identify facts, concepts and research interpretations associated with a key disciplinary concept.
Evaluating Sources Students will independently and collaboratively:
3. Determine the types of sources that will assist in answering compelling and supporting questions.
4. Gather relevant information from multiple sources from a wide range of perspectives and evaluate for credibility.
5. Identify and utilize evidence to seek solutions to questions.
Communicating Students will independently and collaboratively:
6. Develop and create claims and counterclaims using appropriate evidence to construct strengths and weaknesses
7. Construct viable arguments, relevant explanations and/or public demonstrations that convey ideas and perspectives to a wide array of appropriate audiences.
8. Critique the arguments and explanations of others paying particular attention to credibility and relevance of information.
Taking Action Students will independently and collaboratively:
9. Address options of individuals and groups to identify and apply a range of strategies and complex reasoning to take public action or propose a solution.
10. Engage in disciplinary thinking used by social scientists (historians, economists, political scientists and geographers) independently and proficiently resulting in civic readiness.
1. Develop compelling questions that promote inquiry around key disciplinary concepts and embedded enduring issues.
2. Develop supporting questions that identify facts, concepts and research interpretations associated with a key disciplinary concept.
Evaluating Sources Students will independently and collaboratively:
3. Determine the types of sources that will assist in answering compelling and supporting questions.
4. Gather relevant information from multiple sources from a wide range of perspectives and evaluate for credibility.
5. Identify and utilize evidence to seek solutions to questions.
Communicating Students will independently and collaboratively:
6. Develop and create claims and counterclaims using appropriate evidence to construct strengths and weaknesses
7. Construct viable arguments, relevant explanations and/or public demonstrations that convey ideas and perspectives to a wide array of appropriate audiences.
8. Critique the arguments and explanations of others paying particular attention to credibility and relevance of information.
Taking Action Students will independently and collaboratively:
9. Address options of individuals and groups to identify and apply a range of strategies and complex reasoning to take public action or propose a solution.
10. Engage in disciplinary thinking used by social scientists (historians, economists, political scientists and geographers) independently and proficiently resulting in civic readiness.