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Teacher Practice
Hexagonal Thinking & Mapping: A Dynamic Strategy for Deeper Learning
Imagine your students actively making connections, debating ideas, and visually mapping relationships between key concepts. The Hexagonal Mapping Protocol offers a flexible, engaging way for students to organize their thinking and discover new relationships between ideas. Whether used for inquiry-based learning, unit review, or problem-solving, hexagonal mapping deepens discussion, reinforces connections, and encourages critical thinking.
Social Studies
Media Literacy: Primary and Secondary Sources in Inquiry Journeys
Inquiry Journeys builds media literacy skills, integrating thousands of engaging primary and secondary sources. These sources represent multiple perspectives from diverse authors and creators across a varied range of media types, including maps, documents, photographs, websites, videos, paintings, personal narratives, and more.
Webinars
Un-level That Text! Integrating Literacy and Elementary Social Studies
If we want students to seek answers to complex questions, conduct sustained investigations, and construct conclusions based on facts and evidence, then they’ll need to develop their literacy skills so they can wrestle with complex texts. We were joined on our webinar today by Jillian Corr, Senior Learning Experience Designer at inquirED, to dig into strategies to help students when they encounter complex texts in social studies.
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Take a closer look at Inquiry Journeys
Inquiry Journeys (K–5 social studies curriculum) provides inquiry-based instruction for young learners through hands-on investigations and primary source analysis. Explore how elementary students build knowledge and skills by asking questions, analyzing evidence, and connecting learning to their lives and communities.
