The Syzygy
Inquiry Builder
A complete NGSS inquiry lesson plan in 5 minutes for you to tailor to your needs!
The Inquiry Builder plans an NGSS inquiry lesson around your classroom. Give it a grade, a topic, the materials you have, and the time you have. It returns the performance expectations that fit, with the full standard text and its disciplinary core idea shown on the page, a set of phenomena to build from, and a complete lesson plan you can download.
HOW IT WORKS
Enter a grade, a topic, your materials, and your class time.
Review the performance expectations and phenomena it returns, and pick the direction that fits your students.
Generate the full lesson plan. Enter an email address to unlock the MS Word document download.
Works with what you have
The materials you list are what the lesson is built around, not a hypothetical set of lab equipment. Poker chips, index cards, paper airplanes, animal figurines, whatever is actually in your room becomes the investigation. Teachers who work with limited resources or who need something for tomorrow have found this particularly useful.
Grounded in real standards
Every lesson is aligned to Performance Expectations and Disciplinary Core Ideas. Standards appear in full, the complete PE statement, the DCI connection, and the three-dimensional alignment summary, so you can evaluate the alignment yourself rather than taking the tool's word for it.
Print and go
The output is a formatted document. Review it, edit anything that needs adjusting, and print. The student graphic organizer is included and prints cleanly on a separate page.