Gr1 Concepts of Social Studies Thinking
This video shows a process that a grade 1 teacher used to teach the concepts of disciplinary thinking. [Read More]
Grade 2 Family Community
The video links language with social studies. The focus is on grade 2 Social Studies. [Read More]
Gr 4 Early Societies and Language
This video highlights the use of primary sources to make inferences about the past. The clip also highlights the mu [Read More]
Grade 5 Language SSHG
This video focuses on primary sources, inquiry, disciplinary thinking and citizenship. [Read More]
1. An Approach to Inquiry – Introduction
This video provides a brief pictorial collage of an inquiry based classroom in action. [Read More]
2. Why an Inquiry Approach?
This video explores some of the steps involved in setting up an inquiry-based classroom and collaboration among pee [Read More]
3. How Can I Start to Plan For Inquiry?
This video explains techniques for creating good inquiry questions to guide student exploration and depicts one tea [Read More]
4. What might teaching and learning look like?
The video emphasizes the shift from a ‘coverage’ approach to an ‘inquiry’ approach of instruction. It prese [Read More]
5. When to move beyond a two-week exploration?
Extended inquiries are discussed in this video as teachers explain how mini- inquiries can be expanded into larger [Read More]
6. How does this process allow for assessment?
Assessment strategies that work well in an inquiry classroom are related in this video. Observing students in small [Read More]