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| How to locate and evaluate information, Part II - Databases | Students will be able to select and cite credible information for their English II research paper. Students self-select their topic of past, present, and future, e.g. television, cell phones, immigration, capital punishment. This gives the student an opportunity to use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning. | 2 years 30 weeks ago | mcfues | |
| Cornell Notes with I Tunes | Essential Question (s): How can Cornell Notes help me during lectures? How does Cornell Notes help me with remembering or reflection after the lecture? What is the standard format for using Cornell Notes? | 1 year 44 weeks ago | mbalk | |
| Genres: Let’s Make Comparisons | Students compare poetry, folk tales and fables in respect to their genre characteristics. The essential question framing this unit is: What genre similarities can be found in poetry, folk tales and fables? | 1 year 8 weeks ago | zoegirl98 | |
| Community Helpers | In a theme unit on community helpers, Kindergarten students will name a range of community helpers and be able to describe how they perform their major roles. The essential questions for this unit include: Who are community helpers? How do they help us? | 1 year 43 weeks ago | MelissaJ | |
| News Reporting | Teaching students to brainstorm, create, and present news stories is a powerful and productive way to give them 21st Century Skills, as recognized by AASL and ISTE. Learning the techniques of researching, discussing, collaborating, writing, video recording, and reporting are important skills, which help students learn to study subjects in greater depth, which results in greater understanding. Student pairs will research a topic, which they believe will be of interest to their peers. | 1 year 33 weeks ago | mev2 | |
| California’s Native American Tribes | In this session, students will be introduced to the importance of effective note taking. Using print reference materials and web resources, students will answer the essential guiding question, "How did the native Californians live in the past?". These notes will then allow them create a compare/contrast chart for their final unit project, a compare/contrast poster on their specific tribe. | 1 year 32 weeks ago | dtschudy | |
| Teaching Digital Curation Using LiveBinders to Study the Life and Times of Mark Twain | Students will gain background knowledge of the time period surrounding Mark Twain's THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. They will do this by also learning how to digitally curate multimedia materials and Joyce Valenza's CAARD evaluation and selection method for choosing reliable web-based resources. | 1 year 32 weeks ago | Emily McDaniel | |
| Places in History: Researching historic locations associated with the Civil Rights Movement. | Students will have to conduct their research about locations prominent in the Civil Rights Movement thoroughly enough that they can produce a final product illustrating the significance of their location. Students will learn about different search engines and domains. While they are conducting their research, they will evaluate the sources they find to determine if the information found is accurate, valid, appropriate, important, and relates to the social and cultural context we are studying. | 1 year 30 weeks ago | mdeca005 | |
| In Case of Emergency | Fifth grade students will investigate local natural disasters, specifically focusing on the preparedness for natural disasters, and produce a news broadcast based on their research for school's morning announcements. The students will use various resources to locate necessary information in order to answer the essential question: How should you be prepared in the event of natural disaster? | 1 year 30 weeks ago | ykolpa | |
| Using Primary and Secondary Sources to Create an Educational Game | Students will gain background knowledge about Westward Expansion by working with primary and secondary sources curated in a LiveBinder. What is the difference between primary and secondary sources? | 1 year 29 weeks ago | ltodd |