 Hey everybody, it's Katrina from ESU 8 and today I just wanted to make a video to share another high quality resource that will help you embed that inquiry design model into your classroom. So I wanted to show you this website if you're not already familiar with it's called C3teachers.org and it really focuses on inquiry. And across the top this is really great because it gives you some of these other resources so you can go to the inquiry design model. And it really will take you through the structure of an inquiry design model what it does some of the process behind it gives you some different templates to work with. And I will be working with some of these materials at the workshop in December that I sent out and advertised the other day. You can register for that workshop at the ESU 8 website. I'll come back to that here in just a little bit but this is the inquiry design model. And there are some other publications in here so the C3 publications college career and civic readiness frameworks for the social studies standards and using inquiry and social studies to meet those standards. So you can get some information on that making inquiry possible is a great piece. It's got some videos in there that go through why we use inquiry and why we've gone through this instructional shift and how we approach teaching social studies. So that's a little great piece. But what I really want to show you today was the inquiries themselves. And so this is basically a hub where teachers have worked to create inquiries that can be used by other teachers. You can select and filter them by grade level. And you can also select by topic area. And then you can do a search and you can just scroll down these are some of the featured inquiry so you can see here's one for Nebraska by a Nebraska teacher I'm just going to go ahead and click on this. And if you open up this inquiry what's great because there is a consistent format for inquiry design models. It gives you that sort of template but it's on a website so you have your compelling question and how to stage that question. You have supporting questions, then you have those formative tasks that go with those questions. You have the high quality instructional materials used to work with students so they can gather evidence to support any of their claims and their reasoning. And then you have a possible summative performative task that extension for taking action which comes at the end of the inquiries as well as also in here. And I think it's important to know that when you are starting down this journey of inquiry, you do not have to start from scratch there are lots of examples of inquiries out there that you can pick up and just go through them in order to get more comfortable with them you can start with a PDF but also a doc so if you wanted to modify this inquiry you can do that, and that's really great. I wanted to show you this because in December, I will be hosting. If you go to the ESU eight website event registration and scroll down you will see on December 8, I'm hosting a collaborative work day here at ESU eight in inquiry design if you click on that. We're going to focus on these C3 standards but really the goal for that day is for you to walk away with an inquiry that you have designed that you can put into practice in your second semester class. It'd be a great opportunity to collaborate with some other teachers to see what they're doing. And I really want you to be able to walk away with something that's tangible and meaningful for your students, and you can bring with you, maybe a lesson that you currently teach that that's really great. And you want to tweak it to make it fit into this inquiry format, or maybe you have a lesson that it's been a little bit of a struggle with getting students engaged or maybe they're not seeming to retain the information. And we're going to spend time looking at how inquiry can really help us focus our content on that essential essential content and dig in deeper with our students so that they do retain that essential content and change a little bit of the way we look at assessment. But inquiry is really a great instructional shift in social studies, and there's some real power in inquiry to help students really grasp information that maybe they haven't in the past, but it also frees you up to allow students to sort of get in the driver's seat and ask the questions and take on some of that cognitive load. So C three teachers is a really great website that allows you to find some inquiries that are already vetted and published. And if you're just dipping in your toes. This can be a really great way to get started. So I hope you'll take a look at this I hope you'll take a look at some of these other C three materials and inquiry design materials. And you'll maybe take a crack at one of these inquiries if you're kind of dipping your toes in. But I also hope that you will come and register for the inquiry design workshop in December. And we can work together to put together an inquiry that can really be beneficial to your class. Let me know if you have any questions you're always welcome to reach out. And I hope you have a great weekend. Thanks.