This learning wall was built throughout the unit. We read many books about changing landscapes in our community across time. The anchor charts at the bottom of the wall helped us to talk about the modifications in our community. In language arts we used Atlas' to find common and proper nouns across our state, country, and world. We ended the unit finding one spot on our campus that needed modification. We made posters and wrote letters to our principal.

My 2nd graders have been LOVING this social studies unit and are totally engaged! I guess I just want to say a big thank you for everyone who came together to create this inquiry and how user friendly it is coming from a busy teacher! Good luck to everyone else out there! Thank you again!

At my school, we are beginning to create class books about Navigating School. There are 5 K2 classes and each is going to be doing a different part of the school. (classroom, hallway, cafeteria, specials, and playground) My class is going to be navigating the hallway so I created the cover page for the book. Each student if going to create a page about how they can navigate the hallway. Some ideas we brainstormed included lining up, quiet voices, eyes forward, safe bodies, and hands by our sides. I included a rough draft from one of my students in the picture. The next step will be to revise and create our final drafts. We can't wait to read our book as a class!

Students conducted research on the Native peoples of different regions of North America. Students also created the map!

Students used the Pixton app to create these comics.

We launched our Meeting Needs and Wants unit this week in social studies! My second graders were SO excited to learn about needs and wants and discuss what is a need versus a want in a community. We came up with a list of places in our community that are must haves versus may haves, and then created "2R Town", named after our class. Students worked collaboratively to build and design our town full of buildings that fit the needs of a community. Of course, a few "wants" were thrown in as well! At the end of the day today, after spending a full hour and a half learning and creating, a student told me that this was "the most fun he's ever had during social studies" and that usually he "doesn't enjoy it". Other students chimed in and agreed, saying that this unit was already fun and exciting! I am looking forward to continuing this unit with my students!

Students were proud of the work they put into their Mini Posters! Analyzing connections between historical Indigenous Americans and their cultural areas was challenging but rewarding.

I teach 4 sections of 5th grade Social Studies and this is my first year in this position. Although higher order thinking can be a challenge, my students have accepted the challenge and continue to show me how effective and engaging the inquirED curriculum is. I enjoy looking back at the students' initial understanding at the beginning of each module compared to how much their thinking has grown in a few days or by the assessment checkpoints.

Students listened and participated in reading the text aloud in class. Then they worked in pairs or small groups to synthesize the reading and take notes to answer questions and fill out the organizer.

Students studied a state in a particular region and made a scrapbook page, which showed human characteristics, natural characteristics, recreational land use and summarized how this state fits in that region.