Inquiry Design Model: Should Professional Athletes Use Their Platforms and Status to Speak Out about Social and Political Issues?

Complete this inquiry and answer the compelling question: Should Professional Athletes Use Their Platforms and Status to Speak Out about Social and Political Issues?

By examining various sources, students will analyze whether or not professional athletes should utilize their status and platform to speak out about social and political issues. Based on their analyses, students will construct a claim in which they defend their argument about whether or not they should. 

The Inquiry Design Model (IDM) is a distinctive approach to creating curriculum and instructional materials that honors teachers’ knowledge and expertise, avoids overprescription, and focuses on the main elements of the instructional design process as envisioned in the Inquiry Arc of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013). Unique to the IDM is the blueprint, a one-page representation of the questions, tasks, and sources that define a curricular inquiry.