Inquisitive Inquiry
Overarching question that guides the inquiry.
What is the Inquiry Question?
Compelling question that guides the module.
What is the Essential Question?
Specific, observable indicator of student understanding, often tied to lesson objectives and standards.
What is a look for?
Term for the core disciplinary work of the module.
What is the "grapple" or "chew"?
ONE type of summative task that is common to all IJ units.
What is a claim?
Shared space for meaning making across the unit.
What is the Inquiry Wall?
Summative task that culminates a module.
What is the Checkpoint Assessment or CPA?
Questions and tasks are wrapped around these.
What are sources?
Term for lightly previewing a key concept or skill to come.
What is "breadcrumbing"?
THREE phases of an Inquiry Unit.
What is Launch, Investigation, Action?
Results from the QFT, revisited across the unit.
What are Investigation Questions.
Shared space for documenting findings.
What is an Anchor Chart?
In-the-ear tip or coaching for teachers.
What is a Teaching Note?
Term for a question that is compelling, arguable, and lends itself to extended investigation.
What is "essential" or "juicy"?
TWO landmark lessons that launch an Inquiry.
What are the Hook and QFT?
The end goal of a an inquiry unit.
What is Informed Action?
Module that moves from planning and brainstorming through prototyping, feedback, revision, and production.
What is the Action Module?
Criteria for what to look and listen for in discussion.
What is an observational look for?
Term for a callback to previous learning that creates a sense of a continuous investigation.
What is "connective tissue"?
FIVE inquiry skills to target in lesson design.
What are communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creative problem solving, personal agency?
The number of modules in an Inquiry Journeys unit.
What is 6 (1 launch, 4 investigation, 1 action)?
End of module reflection questions invite broader connections to...
What are the Essential Question, Inquiry Questions, and/or Investigation Questions?
Statement of a lesson's disciplinary work in relation to the EQ/CPA.
What is Present the Challenge or PtC?
Term for the larger takeaways of the unit.
What is "enduring understandings" or "the so what?"
TWO landmark lessons that help students pivot to action.
What are Synthesizing Findings and Drawing Conclusions (also known as PiaT or Pulling It All Together) and Constructing the Inquiry Challenge Statement?