A-HA Moment

A-ha moments As I close out my fourth year of the GID project, I am thinking about some of the connections that my students make.  First, I believe that science

Questioning the Journey

Working with GID for over four years, has allowed me to reflect on the patterns, challenges and successes of integrating the Guided Inquiry Design Process in our high school. One

All the colors of GID

One of my favorite aspects of GID is the creativity that is built within the process. I see endless possibility in the ways in which Guided Inquiry Design can be

The Flexibility of GID

When I learned how effective Guided Inquiry could be, I got excited about planning a GID-based writing workshop. I focused on Reconstruction because it’s the setting for my book, but the

The 2016 Collaborative School Library Award

Yesterday I invited you to experience the “Open” stage of the award-winning GID unit developed by two librarians and a social studies/language arts teacher at Carver Middle School in Chester,

Wait a second, who is the teacher and who is the student?

The things I’ve learned this year with GID are endless.  The students have taught me so much.  As adults who are helping students become lifelong learners, it is important to

Reflection

Wow! what an amazing learning experience for myself and my students. I am so proud of them, they worked hard, and remained positive and enthusiastic. The students all wanted to

Create Cont.

Some of our HOT questions are: *What in the atmosphere controls the amount of snowfall? Is there a way to manipulate it and change the snowfall? *How can we manipulate

Day 4: Questioning and Research cont.

Today we are working on our H.O.T questions! We had to think really hard and Mrs. Reinagel had to ok it. We had to research and answer our question. My

Explore and Create

Hi, my name is Katina and my partner is Lexi our topic is Space. We chose space because we want to find out what’s beyond our world. During Immersion we