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David Black posted on July 14, 2010 23:44 
Another surprising find in the museum was the contents of a copy of the ballot for the presidential election of 1896 . I had no idea that the major candidates of this time were actually nominated by more than one political party. While the names of the candidates are not clearly seen in the picture of this ballot, William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic candidate, was also the candidate of choice for several other marginal parties of the time. Apparently the key candidates were endorsed by a coalition of political parties, of which the Democrats and Republicans were the most prominent. A little investigation, which is not difficult given the digital tools we have available to us today, brought a satisfactory answer very quickly. I love researching answers to questions of interest to me. Isn’t that same sort of love something we should seek to instill in our students? What do we do to help our students frame questions that will lead to greater learning? How do we encourage them to explore in areas of interest within the framework of our curriculum? Now is an excellent time to create inquiry strategies for our students. Feel free to share your inquiry-based strategies with other educators by adding a comment to this post.

Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:41 AM
My grandpa owned a tavern in Milwaukee. During prohibition, many of the taverns became "malt shops". During that time my other Grandpa (also in Milwaukee) was approached by a member of Al Capone's "team"- as were many men during that time, to drive a truck for them to transport "freight". (he said no BTW). One of my uncle's was in the CCC helping to support my grandparents and his siblings. While the "alphabet agencies" overall did little to help the economy grow, it did help millions of families to survive (Such a concept - to EARN money from the government instead of standing there with a hand out). I shared the above with my class after we read a short story that took place during the depression. They had a lot of questions, so we made a list of the questions and broke into groups to find answers to them. After identifying sources where we could find answers to the questions, we did the following: Step 1: Each group found answers to the question they were assigned using at least three resources. Step 2: They spent another period consolidating facts in the form of bullet points under their assigned question Step 3: As individuals, they each wrote a paragraph about their topic. Step 4: Each student wrote a paragraph using the notes they had gathered about their question. Step 5: They shared their paragraphs with each other and then wrote one group paragraph and submitted it to me. Step 6: I put all the paragraphs together and as a group we formulated an introduction and a conclusion The above took about eight class periods, but served as a great introduction to writing a research report on a topic of their choosing.
Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:44 AM
Whoops! Steps 3 and 4 are the same. That is what comes with writing this at 4 AM. :-)
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