ABSTRACT
Questions, tasks, and sources are the foundational elements of inquiry. The one-page inquiry design model (IDM) Blueprint provides teachers with a visual snapshot of the compelling and supporting questions that frame and organize an inquiry, the assessment tasks that provide opportunities for students to demonstrate and apply their understanding, and the disciplinary sources that allow students to practice disciplinary thinking and reasoning. The IDM features compelling questions as a way to drive social studies inquiry. The IDM features a variety of performance tasks that provide students with opportunities for learning and teachers with opportunities to understand and assess what students know and are able to do. Sources provide the substance for an inquiry. A compelling question serves to initiate an inquiry; a summative performance task, where students address that question, serves to pull the inquiry together.
