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THINQ, Grades 1–3
Inquiry-Based Learning in the Classroom
Empower your first- to third-grade learners to think with inquiry-based learning. Using guided rubrics and tools, educators can realistically assess, evaluate, and integrate inquiry into their curriculum. Discover the specific needs and learning stages of elementary students as they explore, synthesize, consolidate, and reflect on their learning.
Benefits
- Recognize how they can realistically and gradually integrate inquiry-based learning into their classrooms.
- Answer questions individually or with colleagues to reflect on their journey into inquiry-based learning.
- Read real-life accounts of inquiry in action across grade levels.
- Assess what effective reflection and sharing look like in grades 1–3.
- Access reproducibles that will help them with inquiry-based learning.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: About THINQ
Getting Started: Inquiry-Based Learning With Primary Learners
Assessment and Evaluation: Understanding How Our Primary Learners Are Doing
Wondering and Questioning: The Heart of Inquiry
Finding Out: The Investigation and Exploration Phase of an Inquiry
Making Sense: Helping Primary Students Synthesize, Consolidate and Reflect
Reflecting and Sharing: Pushing Learning to a Deeper Level
Wrapping It Up: What Matters Most
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Getting Started
- Reproducible IA: An Inquiry Process Model
- Reproducible IB: Teacher Inquiry Readiness Checklist
- Reproducible IC: 7 Big Ideas About Inquiry-Based Learning at the Primary Level
Assessment and Evaluation
- Reproducible 2A: How to Model and Assess Inquiry Dispositions
- Reproducible 2B: The Six Essential Inquiry Abilities for Assessment
- Reproducible 2C: An Inquiry Rubric
- Reproducible 2D: Student Exploration: Can You Identify an Argument?
- Reproducible 2E: 28 Ways to Document Learning
- Reproducible 2F: A Protocol for Analysis of Pedagogical Documentation
- Reproducible 2G: 6 Big Ideas About Inquiry Assessment
- Reproducible 2H: Teacher Checklist: Purposeful Planning for Inquiry
Wondering and Questioning
- Reproducible 3A: 8 Characteristics of Effective Inquiry Questions
- Reproducible 3B: Assessment Planning Template: Asks Questions
- Reproducible 3C: Inquiry Rubric and Self-Check: Asks Questions
- Reproducible 3D: Student Exploration: What I See, What I Think, What I Wonder, What I Feel
- Reproducible 3E: 6 Big Ideas About Wondering and Questioning in Primary
- Reproducible 3F: Teacher Checklist: Wonder and Questioning in My Classroom
Finding Out
- Reproducible 4A: Evaluating Sources and Evidence: P.A.S.S.
- Reproducible 4B: Evaluating Sources and Evidence: R.A.D.A.R.
- Reproducible 4C: Assessment Planning Template: Understands What Is Currently Known
- Reproducible 4D: Inquiry Rubric and Self-Check: Understands What Is Currently Known
- Reproducible 4E: Teacher Checklist: Investigative Mindset in My Classroom
Making Sense
- Reproducible 5A: Putting It All Together
- Reproducible 5B: Support for My Inquiry Question/Big Idea
- Reproducible 5C: Making Sense of My Inquiry Question
- Reproducible 5D: Student Self-Check: Making Sense
- Reproducible 5E: PMI Chart
- Reproducible 5F: Balance of Evidence
- Reproducible 5G: Drawing a Conclusion: The Ladder of Inference
- Reproducible 5H: Assessment Planning Template: Puts It All Together
- Reproducible 5I: Inquiry Rubric and Self-Check: Puts It All Together
- Reproducible 5J: Teacher Checklist: Synthesis and Consolidation in My Classroom
Making Sense
- Reproducible 6A: Conclusion of Inquiry: Student Self-Reflection
- Reproducible 6B: Pushing Thinking Deeper: Self-Reflection Prompts
- Reproducible 6C: Critique Prompts: Peer Feedback
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
BOOKS
- Wiliam, D. (2011). Embedded formative assessment. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Wiliam, D. (2018). Embedded formative assessment (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
WEBSITES
Introduction
- Google Workspace to Education Fundamentals
- Seesaw
- Evernote
- Brightspace Portfolio
- Adobe Spark Video
- ThingLink
- Padlet
- Explain Everything
- Educreations
- Book Creator
- EDpuzzle
- Wonderopolis
- Simple English Wikipedia
- Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition
- Newsela
- Learn 360
- Book Creator
- Draw and Tell
- D2L’s Brightspace
- Jennifer Watt LinkedIn profile
- Jill Colyer LinkedIn profile
- Intersectional Inquiry
- Kiddle
- KidzSearch
- Junior
- Pebble Go
- Digital Human Library
