How do we spark curiosity? This interactive webinar, will discuss the use of primary sources that generate inquiry questions and help to spark student curiosity in an inquiry-based classroom. Participants will have the opportunity to view videos about developing questions that link to the thinking concepts and videos about the inquiry approach. In this session, teachers will:
- discuss strategies that help students generate questions
- discuss what an inquiry-based classroom looks like
- take-away practical strategies that they can implement the following day
Audience: K-8
Resources:
- OESSTA Website
- Ministry CBS
- Inquiry Based Classroom Video
- Canadian Museum of History
- McCord Museum
- Archives of Ontario
- Royal Ontario Museum travelling exhibits
- Primary & Secondary Resources
- Planning for Primary Source Use
- Video
- The Ontario Curriculum, Social Studies, Grades 1-6; History and Geography, Grades 7-8, 2013 (revised)
- Financial Literacy Education includes has videos, viewing guides, lesson plans, teaching & learning examples for SSHG
- Capacity Building Series supports instructional effectiveness in Ontario
- OTF Resource:
- This resource is designed to support teachers in the use of inquiry with lessons based on the (2013) Revised Social Studies, History & Geography Curriculum and Environmental Education.
- These sites were developed by two teachers learning how to use the inquiry approach to teaching and learning. There are examples of lessons, videos and they show classrooms in action. http://www.inquiry-based.com & http://www.inquiry-based.blogspot.com