Congratulations to   Lisa Landers  who today published an album of Focused C3 IDMs related to the Georgia Civil Rights Historical Marker Trail.  These IDMs will be of interest to anyone teaching the Civil Rights Movement, working with Historical Markers in their own locality or teaching about the C3 Framework and IDMs.

In this Social Education article from 2018, the C3 team explained the purpose of the Focused IDM and compared it to the original longer version.  In summary:

In these new focused inquiries, there is still a compelling question to be answered by an evidenced-based argument, but the question is narrower in scope and the argumentative task is condensed to a single claim and counterclaim. Instead of 3–4 supporting questions with the attendant formative tasks and disciplinary sources, there are only 1–2. Staging the compelling question has always been a limited exercise, so it remains as is in a focused inquiry. The end of the blueprint, which can stretch out if desired, features either an extension or an action opportunity, but not both. Overall, the focused inquiry shrinks the instructional demands to one class period.

Read more about it here.

Check out the Georgia Historical Marker Album by Lisa Landers.