Inquiry-+Lesson+Outine

**Step 1: Inquiry**

__**Topic**__: Inquiry Based Learning

__**Standards**__: _ Technology Standards G9-12: 1.32 Identify technology tools (e.g., authoring tools) that can be used to create a multimedia product. G9-12: 1.33 Use a variety of applications to plan, create, and edit multimedia products (e.g., slide presentations, videos, animations, simulations, podcasts). G9-12: 1.34 Link information residing in different applications (e.g., linking a chart in a word-processing document to the spreadsheet where it was created). G9-12: 1.27 Use search engines and online directories. Explain the differences among various search engines and how they rank results. //Research// G9-12: 3.1 G9-12: 3.2 G9-12: 3.3 G9-12: 3.4 //Problem Solving// Devise and demonstrate strategies for efficiently collecting and organizing information from electronic sources. Compare, evaluate, and select appropriate electronic resources to locate specific information. Select the most appropriate search engines and directories for specific research tasks. Search for information within an electronic source (e.g., using the find command).

ELA Frameworks Key Ideas and details **1.**Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">INtegrations of Knowledge and Ideas <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**7.**Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Mastery/Thinking Objectives**__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">//Students will be able to...// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Understand & discuss the concept of IBL with peers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Develop ideas for IBL in a mind-map <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">-Complete a IBL Contract

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Outcomes/Assessment**__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Students will produce a mind-map of ideas for IBL <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Students will complete a IBL Contract

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Preview/Do Now**__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Students will be given an excerpt from //The Soloist//. They be asked to read and circle/underline interesting terms or ideas. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Directions: Please read the following excerpt and annotate the following: (1) What do you know about this subject? (2) What would you like to know about this subject? media type="custom" key="10263715" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Once the students have finished, have them share with a partner what term was selected and the notes they took. Once all have finished, tell them to put aside the reading (we will be returning to it shortly).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Direct Instruction/Modeling/Class Notes**__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1. Introduction to Inquiry Based Learning <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Inform the students that the focus of the lesson is a new term, Inquiry Based Learning. Have the student use Vocabulary.com or Visualthesaurus.com to research the word "inquiry." Once the students have completed this, have them work in pairs to come up with their own definition. Ask for student to volunteer definitions.





<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2. Adding to the definition <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">On the board, add 'Based Learning' to Inquiry and proceed to show the following definition: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">IBL #1: research based strategies that actively involes students in the exploration of the content, issues, and questions surrounding a topic. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">IBL #2: "Inquiry" is defined as "a seeking for truth, information, or knowledge -- seeking information by questioning." Individuals carry on the process of inquiry from the time they are born until they die. This is true even though they might not reflect upon the process. Infants begin to make sense of the world by inquiring. From birth, babies observe faces that come near, they grasp objects, they put things in their mouths, and they turn toward voices. The process of inquiring begins with gathering information and data through applying the human senses -- seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In notebooks, have the students write the above definitions and then have them paraphrase each into their own words. Discuss.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3. A Video Explanation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Once key terms have been established, play the following video. Before the video is played, inform the students that we will be discussing evidence the video present of IBL.

[|IBL Video]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Guided Practice & Independent Work**__

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Once the class has watched the video, I will explain to them the Inquiry Process. I will model the process with the topic of Skid Row (see map below). Once we have completed the class model, stduent will begin to complete their map (see blank template map).



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Closure-Sharing/Debriefing/Assessment**__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">At the end of each lesson, studenst will (1) reflect on what he/she has learned about the inquiry process and (2) review what was produced on the mind map with a partner. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Homework**__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">For each night, homework will entail: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1. What do you hope to learn about your topic? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2. What do you need to have in place to accomplish your goal?