Teaching Guide – Inquiry Teaching https://www.inquiry-teaching.com Lesson Plans for Inquiry Based Teaching Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:05:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.inquiry-teaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-inquiry-home-v2-1-32x32.jpg Teaching Guide – Inquiry Teaching https://www.inquiry-teaching.com 32 32 Teaching Guide for Open Ended Discussions https://www.inquiry-teaching.com/lesson/teaching-guide-for-open-ended-discussions/ Thu, 31 Aug 2017 03:44:24 +0000 http://www.inquiry-teaching.com/?post_type=product&p=327 successful open ended discussion takes planning. This free teaching guide will provide you with direction and guidance on how to use this teaching strategy to motivate and stir interest in for any topic in your classes.  Open ended discussions are a great way to start a new unit, too, as a means of learning what background knowledge your students may already possess on a given topic. A few sample lesson ideas are included in this guide in addition to details about how to create your own.
  • Subject Area: Any
  • Materials Required: Whiteboard or display
  • Time Needed: Can be an entire class period or only an introduction item.
 ]]> Most teachers are well versed in handling directed discussions where students are asked questions and guided to a particular conclusion.  Open ended discussions where there might be no single “right” answer are a very different kind of discussion, and much harder to do well.

Creating a successful open ended discussion takes planning. This free teaching guide will provide you with direction and guidance on how to use this teaching strategy to motivate and stir interest in for any topic in your classes.  Open ended discussions are a great way to start a new unit, too, as a means of learning what background knowledge your students may already possess on a given topic.

A few sample lesson ideas are included in this guide in addition to details about how to create your own.

  • Subject Area: Any
  • Materials Required: Whiteboard or display
  • Time Needed: Can be an entire class period or only an introduction item.

 

]]> Free Guide to Instructional Simulation Games https://www.inquiry-teaching.com/lesson/teaching-guide-for-instructional-simulation-games/ Mon, 21 Aug 2017 02:55:11 +0000 http://www.inquiry-teaching.com/?post_type=product&p=159 free teaching guide provides details about using instructional simulation games. In simulation games, students may role play being legislators, mayors, parents, national leaders, Civil War generals, or even criminals. The designer builds the game so that the player can experience some of the everyday responsibilities, decisions, rewards, and pressures found in a slice of historical or social life, whether it is of the Congress, the family, or a small economy. This teacher's guide provides reasons for why you should include simulation games in your curriculum, and details about how best to teach with them.  Please feel free to share this guide with others. We sell several simulations that pair with this free guide.  Please be sure to check out the following lessons plans: Our culminating activities of Atlantis and the Who Killed Caesar? Murder Mystery Party are also hybrids of simulation games. And coming soon, a Simulation of Congress, and a Simulation of Bunker Hill.]]> This free teaching guide provides details about using instructional simulation games. In simulation games, students may role play being legislators, mayors, parents, national leaders, Civil War generals, or even criminals. The designer builds the game so that the player can experience some of the everyday responsibilities, decisions, rewards, and pressures found in a slice of historical or social life, whether it is of the Congress, the family, or a small economy.

This teacher’s guide provides reasons for why you should include simulation games in your curriculum, and details about how best to teach with them.  Please feel free to share this guide with others.

We sell several simulations that pair with this free guide.  Please be sure to check out the following lessons plans:

Our culminating activities of Atlantis and the Who Killed Caesar? Murder Mystery Party are also hybrids of simulation games.

And coming soon, a Simulation of Congress, and a Simulation of Bunker Hill.

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