Inquire Elementary Teacher's Guide

Teacher's Guide to the Student Handbook

The Inquire Elementary Teacher's Guide (Grades 4-5) provides you all the support you need to use the student handbook to teach 21st century skills, traditional study skills, the inquiry process, and project-based instruction. For every chapter of the handbook, you'll find learning outcomes and standards correlations, daily lesson plans, extension and review activities, and content-area minilessons.

See the Inquire Student Handbook. For free downloadable templates, additional models, and links to great sites, check out the handbook additional resources and the teacher's guide additional resources.

The Inquire Teacher's Guide has three main parts:

Part I: Presenting Inquire

• Overview
• Pedagogy Behind Inquire
• Quick Tours of Inquire and Ancillaries
• Using Inquire for Planning and Instruction
• Assessing Student Work
• Correlations for Inquire
• Research and Resources

Part II: Chapter-by-Chapter Lesson Plans

• Learning Outcomes and Standards Correlations
• Daily Lesson Plans
• Extension and Review Activities
• Content-Area Minilessons

Part III: Developing Projects

• Learning Outcomes and Standards Correlations
• Team-Teaching Suggestions
• Using Projects in Social Studies, Science, Math, and English

The Inquire Teacher's Guide helps you . . .

• develop your students' 21st century skills such as critical and creative thinking, problem solving, communicating, and collaborating;
• improve students' information and media literacy by using the library and Internet, reading to learn, taking notes, evaluating media messages, finding reliable Web sites, using primary sources, documenting sources, and avoiding plagiarism;
• build students' inquiry skills such as questioning, planning, researching, creating, improving, and presenting; and
• guide students to create amazing projects, from writing and graphic projects to design and community projects.