This Focused IDM Blueprint was developed for the current PD course being conducted by Lisa Landers and Elise Butler at the Georgia Historical Society.  The end product for this 10 week webinar will be a Focused IDM Blueprint related to one of the Historical Markers in the Georgia Civil Rights Trail.  We used the C3 Focused IDM template which narrows the supporting questions to one and the primary sources are limited to the ones that help students answer that one question. The inquiry can be done in 1-2 class periods. The focused IDM model was developed by the C3 team in answer to teacher requests to have a shorter version they could integrate more often and with less intense teacher research time. This article in Social Education explains the Focused IDM: Questions, Tasks and Sources: Focusing on the Essence of Inquiry explains the approach.

At the heart of this IDM is the photograph   Social Studies/History    9 - 12    6 - 8    Georgia Civil Rights    Historical Markers  of the "Leesburg Stockade Stolen Girls" taken by Danny Lyon, a SNCC photographer hired to document the incarceration abuse of these young activists.