Welcome to
Inquiry Journeys
During this extraordinary moment of history, elementary students need an inquiry-based social studies curriculum that helps them analyze, understand, and impact their world.
Move Beyond the Textbook
Inquiry Journeys moves beyond the textbook, delivering digital and customizable year-long social studies that engages students and supports teachers.
SUPPORTS
Teaching strategies support student voice and choice and connect to students' experiences and interests.
INSPIRES
Designed from the C3 Framework to build knowledge and support informed action
ALIGNS TO
Resources and assessment align with Social Studies, ELA, and SEL Standards
PROVIDES
Provides fully-digital, customizable units and ready-to-use sources,
strategies, and tools
How do students build social studies content knowledge?
Units launch with a compelling question, move through a sustained investigation of content, and culminate when students take informed action.
Rigorous & Sustained Investigation
Watch the video for a summary of social studies content in a 2nd Grade Unit. Download a Scope and Sequence for a content overview of all units.
How do students move from investigation to action?
How does Inquiry Journeys support teachers?
DETAILED
LESSON PLANS
Lesson plans provide
accommodations, accelerations, teaching notes, and more, giving teachers the tools they need to reach all learners.
DIVERSE
SOURCES
From articles to videos, Inquiry Journeys saves teachers valuable time by providing accurate, engaging, and diverse sources to support investigation.
INTEGRATED
ASSESSMENTS
Formative assessments are included in every lesson. Checkpoint assessments help to check understanding after sustained investigation.
inquirED is taking up the mantel to build ambitious curriculum materials to help bring to instructional life the ideas within the C3 Framework. They offer a total package: full-scale infrastructure to implement inquiry as a comprehensive curriculum in social studies.
Dr. John Lee
Co-founder of C3 Teachers &
Co-Writer of the C3 Framework
Looking for supplementary social studies?
Inquiry Connections (BETA) is a supplementary social studies curriculum available for purchase for 2021-2022