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The Four Question Method (4QM) is a "simple yet profound" way of thinking about history/social studies teaching and learning. We believe in knowledge based explicit instruction that is engaging and meaningful.
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What Does 4QM Assessment Look Like? (opens the original)
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We get this question a lot. Usually the people who ask it are asking about unit tests: the full class period assessment that typically comes at the end of two to four weeks of teaching about a given topic. What does a 4QM unit test look like?A 4QM unit test looks a lot like 4QM lessons. One of the things we love about the Four Question Method is that there’s no real difference between what happens in class and what happens on the test. We have Four Questions, and four lesson types. In class our
A Unified Field Theory for Social Studies (opens the original)
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We’ve been working with several school districts that have recently decided to use the 4QM curriculum, and it’s been truly gratifying to hear administrative decision-makers describe why they’ve made that choice. Several different people have told us that 4QM is the first thing they’ve seen (in years or decades of looking!) that actually provides a comprehensive disciplinary framework for teaching history and social studies. The 4QM curriculum isn’t just a collection of materials and activities,
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