Anchored Inquiry Learning Writing Resources

Tool Purpose

1. Support you to write your localized pathway materials using the Anchored Inquiry Learning (AIL) instructional model. 

What’s Included

This tool includes two resources that you will draw on to write your lessons (tools 2b in 2c). 

1. Lesson Plan Template for your local lesson set 1 and culminating task. This template includes the routines that make up each AIL lesson type. Copy this template and use it to draft your local pathway. 

2. AIL Writing Guidance Document outlining the goal for each AIL routine with prompts and examples to help you draft activities in your local pathway lessons. 

Importance for Unit Design

AIL units include four different lesson types: Anchor, Investigate, Synthesize, and Culminating Task. Each lesson type serves a different purpose in the unit storyline and has its own sequence of routines, some shared across lesson types. When facilitating phenomenon-based sensemaking, having predictable routines is important for students to understand what is expected of them. The AIL framework provides this structure while allowing for creative adaptation to your local context.

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