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Southeast Polk Elementary Collaboration

K-2

IDM

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Outcomes of Our Work

  • Create Inquiry Units for Social Studies that integrate with literacy skills.
  • Make collaborative decisions on units to teach in and across grade levels.
  • Learn and create with the Inquiry Design Model.
    • November 13
    • January 15
    • April 29

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Today’s Outcomes

  • Review basic premises of IDM Model
  • Make collaborative decisions on units to teach in and across grade levels.
  • Create with the IDM Model
    • Essential Questions
    • Standards
    • Summative Task

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Importance of the Content Areas

  • A focus on Social Studies can help build the knowledge and vocabulary needed to understand both texts and the world around us.
  • It builds on the natural curiosity and wonder that students bring to learning.
  • Provides authentic opportunities for integration, communication, and problem-solving.
  • It is a part of our vision at Southeast Polk--Success for college, career, and civic life.

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“Background knowledge plays a key role in students' reading comprehension — our findings show that if students don't have sufficient related knowledge, they'll likely have difficulties understanding text."

--Tenaha O'Reilly

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"By reading texts in social studies, science, and other disciplines, students build a foundation of knowledge in these fields that will also give them the background to be better readers in all content areas."

--David Coleman

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Designing Units

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Standard: Long-standing disputes over States rights and slavery and the secession of Southern states from the Union, sparked by the election of Abraham Lincoln, led to the Civil War. After the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves became a major Union goal. The Civil War resulted in tremendous human loss and physical destruction. 

Designing

Inquiry

States Rights

Slavery

Lincoln

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Six

Week

Unit

Lesson

Three to Five Day Inquiry

Cycles of Inquiry

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“Bigger than a lesson,�Smaller than a unit!”

Six

Week

Unit

Lesson

Three to Five Day Inquiry

Inquiry =

Cycles of Inquiry

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Inquiry Design Model

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Components of the Inquiry Design Model

  • Essential Questions
  • Standards
  • Staging the Question
  • Supporting Questions
  • Formative Performance Tasks
  • Featured Sources
  • Summative Performance Task
  • Taking Informed Action

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Sample Lesson

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Components of the Inquiry Design Model

  • Essential Questions
  • Standards
  • Staging the Question
  • Supporting Questions
  • Formative Performance Tasks
  • Featured Sources
  • Summative Performance Task
  • Taking Informed Action

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Essential Question

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A good essential question…

  • Frames the unit
  • Is relevant to students
  • Sets up the rigor of expectations
  • Sets up the summative task

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Attributes of Quality Essential Questions

  • Is open-ended; will not have a single, final, and correct answer.
  • Is thought-provoking and engaging (often sparking discussion and debate).
  • Calls for higher order and critical thinking
  • Raises additional questions and sparks further inquiry.
  • Requires support and justification with evidence, not just an answer.
  • You can’t Google the answer.

McTighe, J., & Wiggins, G. P. (2013). Essential questions: opening doors to student understanding. Alexandria, VA: ASCD. p. 3

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Let’s Explore!

Essential Question Examples

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Components of the Inquiry Design Model

  • Essential Questions
  • Standards
  • Staging the Question
  • Supporting Questions
  • Formative Performance Tasks
  • Featured Sources
  • Summative Performance Task
  • Taking Informed Action

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Components of the Inquiry Design Model

  • Essential Questions
  • Standards
  • Staging the Question
  • Supporting Questions
  • Formative Performance Tasks
  • Featured Sources
  • Summative Performance Task
  • Taking Informed Action

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Summative Performance Task

  • Tests the essential question

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  • Addresses both the rigor of the standards and the curiosity/relevance of the students

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  • Guides the inquiry cycle

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Next Session

  • Supporting Questions and Formative Tasks

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  • Staging the Question

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  • Summer Curriculum Work

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