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Am I Going to Vote?
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This inquiry leads students through an investigation of youth voting practices. By investigating the compelling question of whether or not they will vote, students consider the ways in which the voting habits of youth provide a unique opportunity to reflect on their own voting preferences.

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Social Studies
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C3 Teachers
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07/05/2017
Are Students Protected by the First Amendment?
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This inquiry leads students through an investigation of students’ rights and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. By investigating the compelling question, students consider the ways in which their rights provide a unique perspective on learning about the First Amendment and the extent to which schools are “special areas,” in which various courts have made rulings that may be seen as limiting students’ First Amendment rights.

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Social Studies
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07/05/2017
Are the Olympics About More than Sports?
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This inquiry uses the ancient and modern Olympic games as a context for students to explore the compelling question "Are the Olympics about more than sports?" Students investigate the ancient and modern Olympics using a range of historical and secondary sources to learn more about the historical and mythological origins of the games; the rebirth of the games in France; and the broader goals of the Olympics, including nurturing the arts.

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Social Studies
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03/20/2017
Bananas
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This inquiry prompts students to investigate the social, economic, and environmental issues surrounding the global banana industry. In investigating the compelling question regarding real cost of bananas, students explore the pros and cons of the banana industry. They also begin to build a foundational understanding of the complicated relationship between government and business in the local, national, and global economy.

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Social Studies
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02/26/2019
The Boston Tea Party: Activism or Vandalism?
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The goal of this inquiry is to help students analyze a pivotal event within the American Revolution. Students look at the grievances of American colonists prior to 1773, and then examine their choice of action, as well as the British response. This inquiry invites students to use multiple perspectives to assess historic and modern-day cries for justice and why revolutionaries often break laws to further their cause.

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Social Studies
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C3 Teachers
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03/27/2017
Can Disease Change the World?
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In this inquiry, students consider the causes, symptoms, and reasons for the rapid geographic expansion of the disease and how this pandemic affected people of the 14th century and beyond. Through their investigation of sources in this inquiry, students should develop an understanding of the consequences of the Black Death and an informed awareness of the importance of preparing for future diseases and possible pandemics.

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Social Studies
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03/20/2017
Can My Life Fit on a Map?
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This inquiry leads students through an investigation of maps and spatial representation, exploring how and why we depict the physical world the way we do on maps. The compelling question "Can my life fit on a map?" encourages students to consider our ability to represent real-world places on a map. In doing so, students explore the meaning and purpose of maps, the tools that help us represent places, the purposes of those tools, and how we use those tools to read and make maps. This inquiry provides a foundation for students to develop their geographic reasoning and map literacy, both of which are critical to understandind how humans interact with geography and geographic features across time and space.

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Social Studies
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C3 Teachers
Date Added:
03/16/2017
Can Peace Lead to War?
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This inquiry offers students an opportunity to explore the historic controversy surrounding the extent to which the Treaty of Versailles caused World War II. Students consider not only the stipulations of the peace treaty but also the nature of historical interpretation by following the voices of historians throughout the inquiry.

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Social Studies
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03/31/2017
Can Words Lead to War?
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This inquiry provides students with an opportunity to explore how words affect public opinion through an examination of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Students will investigate historical sources related to the novel and reactions of people in the North and South in order to address the compelling question "Can words lead to war?" The final summative assessment asks the to make an argument about the impact of the words in Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Social Studies
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03/25/2017
Declaration of Independence
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This fifth-grade inquiry asks why countries declare their independence. As an integral early step in the process of becoming independent, a declaration of independence functions as an argument for why people should be free. This inquiry focuses on the argument made in the United States Declaration of Independence. With a firm understanding of the American colonists’ argument for independence, the inquiry shifts to students conducting research on declarations of independence in other parts of the Western Hemisphere.

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Social Studies
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C3 Teachers
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Date Added:
02/26/2019
Did Industrialization Make Life Better for Everyone in New York?
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This inquiry leads students through an investigation of the Industrial Revolution in the United States by examining the manufacturing industry as a proxy for industrialization.

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03/20/2017
Did the American Dream Come True for Immigrants Who Came to New York?
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This inquiry leads students through an investigation of the experiences faced by immigrant groups who traveled to New York throughout the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Social Studies
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03/20/2017
Did the Attack on Pearl Harbor Unify America?
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In this pdf lesson module, students will consider the question: Did the attack on Pearl Harbor unify America? When students have completed this lesson, they will have created, explained, and defended coherent and evidence-based arguments for the multi-layered ways in which Americans thought about US involvement in WWII in the immediate aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Lessons will focus on the following topics: 1--Summarize reactions that everyday Americans had to the attack on Pearl Harbor; 2--Use relevant evidence to describe how people justified American involvement in the war, despite their misgivings; and 3--Make a claim with relevant evidence that explains the different ways that African Americans thought about the war.

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Social Studies
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Date Added:
09/05/2017
Did the Chinese and Romans Know Each Other?
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In this inquiry, students examine the extent to which the Chinese and Romans had knowledge of and interacted with one another. This inquiry is about the historical antecendent to the Silk Road.

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Social Studies
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Date Added:
03/20/2017
Did the Constitution Establish a Just Government?
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The goal of this inquiry is for students to gain an informed, critical perspective on the United States Constitution as it stood at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. By investigating the justness of the Constitution, students examine how the Constitution structures the government, the Constitution’s relationship to slavery, and the extent to which the amendment process makes the government more democratic. Through taking a critical look at the Constitution, students should understand the government the Constitution created and develop an evidence-based perspective that serves as a launching pad for informed action.

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Social Studies
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Date Added:
07/05/2017
Did the Printing Press Preserve the Past or Invent the Future?
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This inquiry leads students through an investigation of the impacts of the printing press by examining its utility in society, both as an instrument to preserve cultural products of the past and as an agent of change. Students create an evidence-based argument about whether the printing press promoted continuity or change after considering the ways in which it preserved existing systems of belief and thought, enabled the dissemination of information, and led to increased exploration and systemic change within European societies.

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Social Studies
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03/27/2017
Do Any Political Parties Represent Me?
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This inquiry leads students through an investigation of political issues and political parties. By investigating the compelling question about how well political parties represent individuals, students consider their own political ideology as a lens for learning about the extent to which political parties address international and domestic issues.

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Social Studies
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Date Added:
07/05/2017
Do People Around the World Care About Children's Rights?
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This inquiry focuses on the concept of universal human rights and fair treatment of all people through the compelling question. The focus on children's rights - the idea that children have unique rights that apply to them as nonadult members of the global citizenry - offers students an opportunity to examine the idea that they have rights and to understand that they can have an impact on the world.

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Social Studies
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Date Added:
03/20/2017
Do We Have to Have Rules?
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This inquiry investigates the relationship between rules and values as well as the role that rules play in maintaining a civil society.

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Social Studies
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C3 Teachers
Date Added:
03/16/2017