Teachers across the country shared photos of students in the thick of inquiry — asking questions, testing ideas, and discovering something new. Here are the classrooms that stood out.



These classrooms were picked for their creativity, depth of questioning, and student engagement.

This end of unit project for the Colonial America unit asks students to explore an important event or aspect of colonial life. Students chose a topic and created an illustration in the medium of their choice. They also wrote a caption that explains the event from the perspectives of the different groups they studied, helping them consider how people experienced the same moment in different ways.

After reading about different waves of immigration, third grade students created posters about a specific immigrant group and presented what they learned to the class. The activity sparked discussion about push and pull factors and helped students understand the challenges immigrants faced before and after arriving in the United States.

In the My Team and Self inquiry unit, students reflected on their own strengths and then identified the strengths of their classmates. They shared and celebrated these qualities as a class while learning how each person contributes to a team. The experience helped students understand the importance of teamwork and appreciating one another.
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Students reflected upon the photographs in the Revolutionary Gallery Walk Hook activity for this unit. They were able to understand what revolution and revolutionary meant while they previewed content from the unit to come.
The American Revolution
5th Grade
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Students reflected upon the photographs in the Revolutionary Gallery Walk Hook activity for this unit. They were able to understand what revolution and revolutionary meant while they previewed content from the unit to come.
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Elizabeth Nielsen from Skokie District 68: IL, 5th Grade

Students learning about how economic choices can have positive impacts. It is really helpful to have a space where we can add to student learning and showcase student work throughout the unit.
Economic Choices
4th Grade
Investigation Questions Anchor Chart

My students created dioramas to show globalization in different settings. One group created a diorama showing Epcot/Disney World. Another group showed how different places receive products. They were very engaged and excited to show the meaning of globalization and how we are connected as a community and world.
Global Connections
3rd Grade
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My students created dioramas to show globalization in different settings. One group created a diorama showing Epcot/Disney World. Another group showed how different places receive products. They were very engaged and excited to show the meaning of globalization and how we are connected as a community and world.
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Talitha Cutchin from Roaring Fork School District: CO, 3rd Grade

Each student chose something that they would like to change or improve at our school. We chose placards and a peaceful protest march to practice responsible citizenship because we saw it more than one of our classroom read-alouds during the unit. We then created a prototype and used that to create our final project. We then marched around the second floor shouting and showing with our placards what we wanted.
Civic Engagement
1st Grade
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Each student chose something that they would like to change or improve at our school. We chose placards and a peaceful protest march to practice responsible citizenship because we saw it more than one of our classroom read-alouds during the unit. We then created a prototype and used that to create our final project. We then marched around the second floor shouting and showing with our placards what we wanted.
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The students decided to bring families together to form a stronger community by encouraging our school families to donate new school supplies to a local school for children with disabilites that didn't have any art supplies.
Families Near and Far
1st Grade
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The students decided to bring families together to form a stronger community by encouraging our school families to donate new school supplies to a local school for children with disabilites that didn't have any art supplies.
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Ali Golfetto from Quality Schools International: IT, 1st Grade

Native America
5th Grade
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Navigating School
Kindergarten
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Meeting Needs and Wants
2nd Grade
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Natural Resources of the U.S.
4th Grade
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Our scholars enjoyed incorporating painting, illustrating and collaborative arrangement to create and design this mural now hung in the main office hall of Detroit Premier Academy.
Our Special Location
1st Grade
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Our scholars enjoyed incorporating painting, illustrating and collaborative arrangement to create and design this mural now hung in the main office hall of Detroit Premier Academy.
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MONIQUE CZARNECKI from National Heritage Academies - Parent District: NC, MI, NY, CO, 1st Grade

Native America
5th Grade
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