Inquiry Design Model:Session 3

Sources

Part I - The nature of sources

• What are sources?• What makes a source disciplinary?• What is the relationship between sources and

tasks?• How do sources support work with knowledge

and skills?

What are sources?

• Sources provide information that is useful in answering questions.

• Three characteristics of sources– Information contained in a source– Composition of a source– Perspective or bias of a source

What makes a source disciplinary?

• Sources have features that are distinctive within the disciplines.

• Examples of disciplinary sources and processes include.

Political Science – Legislation evaluating public policies Economics – Data and statistics quantitative reasoning

Geography - Maps and GIS data spatial reasoning

History - Oral history and diaries perspective

Your Task

Given the content suggested in Key Idea 7.7 in NY Social Studies Framework, what are some sources that would be useful in an inquiry on the compelling question, “Can words lead to war?” • What sources in political science? • What sources in economics?• What sources in geography?• What sources in history?

What is the relationship between sources and tasks?

• IDM tasks are anchored by sources

• Sources and tasks must work in tandem

SOURCES

Source work follows C3 Inquiry Arc

If students are asked a COMPELLING question……

Students answer in the form of a SUMMATIVEARGUMENT

In the middle are theFORMATIVE TASKS(Content and Skills)

How do sources support work withknowledge and skills?

• Disciplinary knowledge and disciplinary skills are integrated within an investigation.

• Source work is not easy. Content

Concepts

Skills

Sources can be used to

• Spark curiosity • Build knowledge• Construct arguments

Part II – The Instructional Uses of Sources

Sparking Curiosity

Sparking curiosity is about engagement.• Focus on relevance and what we know

students care about.• Using Staging Activities in an inquiry.• Nurturing curiosity through sources

throughout the inquiry.

How would you use this source to spark curiosity?

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What are some other ways to spark curiosity using sources?

Building Knowledge

• Sources in an inquiry contain the disciplinary knowledge (content and concepts) students need to complete tasks.

• Students use disciplinary skills when building knowledge.

• Students gather information from the sources during an inquiry.

How do the sources support the building knowledge?

Constructing Arguments with Evidence

• Inquiries result in arguments.• Sources contain information that can be used

as evidence in an argument.• Students need support determining what

information should be used in an argument.

How do the sources support the argument?

Part III – Working with Sources

• When using sources in an inquiry teachers should consider the following. – Selecting sources– Scaffolding – Adapting sources

Selecting Sources

• Selection of sources requires deep knowledge of content.

• Where can we find the sources?• Archives, libraries, collections• Online• Through collaboration and sharing

Adapting sources

• Approaches to adapting sources– Excerpting– Modifying – Annotating

• Examples– Text passage from Uncle Tom’s Cabin– Summary of Uncle Tom’s Cabin– Illustration from the 1st edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Adaptations to instruction• Objections to making changes to sources

Sources require scaffolding

• Scaffolds provide novices with support for complex academic work.

• Toolkit scaffolds were designed to support formative and summative tasks.

• Analyzing sources in an inquiry involves literacy work.

• Again, source work is not easy.

Summary of Session 3: Sources• Sources contain information useful in answering

questions, are disciplinary in nature, relate to the tasks in an inquiry, and support work with knowledge and skills.

• IDM features three instructional uses of sources.– Sparking curiosity,– Building knowledge, and– Constructing arguments with evidence.

• When using sources in an inquiry teachers should consider the following. – Selecting sources– Scaffolding – Adapting sources

IDM Conceptual Framework: Sources

• Content knowledge and disciplinary skills are integrated within an investigation (#3).

• Disciplinary sources are the building blocks of inquiry (# 6).

• Social studies shares in the responsibility for literacy (#8).

Questions

Tasks

Sources

Pulling it all Together