448Inquiry

Exploring Inquiry In Your Discipline
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 * [|Exploring Grade Appropriate Themes and Essential Questions for Middle and High School Level Content] - Greece, New York Curriculum
 * [|Components of Essential Questions:] Foundational guides for developing essential questions and other inquiry resources
 * [|Thinking Processes and The Question Matrix (Q-Matrix)] from Victoria, British Columbia
 * [|Alternative Assignments]: Create a YouTube video to illustrate real-life connections to your content rather than an write an essay - see this Grade 3 student's video titled Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
 * For today's class, you will be exploring with a partner one of these modules and addressing the questions posed on your handout.
 * HISTORY: [|Saving the Blue and Gray] (Civil War, Grade 8) Students propose changes to Civil War battlefield practices.
 * HISTORY: [|Pinochet and Human Rights: Reevaluating Policy] (Policy Studies, Grade 10) Prepare to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to address this issue: How can the U.S. maintain a strong commitment to human rights and at the same time protect its national interests?
 * SCIENCE: [|The World Inside]You (Biology, Chemistry, and Health - Grade 8) Students investigate systems of the human body in order to make some personal health decisions for their future.
 * SCIENCE: [|Our Water World: The Blue Planet] (Environmental Science: Grade 8) Students explore questions about our planet, including "What happens when human waste can no longer be absorbed by our natural systems?"
 * ENGLISH: [|What Makes A Good Place to Live] (Persuasive Writing - Grade 9) Students study selected continents during the term to determine the best place to live, based on the 5 themes of geography.
 * ENGLISH: [|I Was Part of the Movement] (Memoir Writing - Grades 9-12) Students create a diary of a well-known figure from the Civil War era.
 * ENGLISH: [|The Grapes of Wrath - What if this happened to you?] (Grades 9-12) Students explore the impact of a natural disaster on modern day America.
 * FOREIGN LANGUAGE: [|Family Vacation...Spanish Style] (Spanish Class - Grades 9-12) Students work together and choose a destination location in a Spanish speaking region and decide what to do while there.
 * MATH:[| An Introduction to the Pythagorean Theorem] (Webquest - Highschool) Students use the theorem to solve a problem for the Department of Transportation
 * MATH: [|Inclined to Learn Math] (Webquest - High School) Students apply math skills to determine if their school meets state standards
 * ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: [|Seashore Decision] (Science - Grade 3) Students visit four tidal zones and choose to become a seashore animal.
 * OPTIONAL: [|Path to Peace: Tumult in the Middle East] (Grade 7) Students describe a policy the United States should follow in the Middle East, and tell how it will create a solution to the conflict and benefit the people of the world.