Search: Smart board, 1.2.5 Demonstrate adaptability by changing the inquiry focus, questions, resources, or strategies when necessary to achieve success.
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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
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| Career Options: Which One Is Right For Me? | In their career explorations, students assess the usefulness of a range of resources including print, online, and human sources. They retrieve information from different sources including interviews and workplace observations. Students address the following essential questions throughout the project: What career paths have I explored? Which career appeals most to me and why? How can I find out more about this particular career? How do I know if I am suited for this career? | 11 | |
| What Were They Thinking Then, What Are We Thinking Now? | In the library students compare primary sources from two time periods relating to an issue in their novel or play. Students compare how the issue was perceived by characters in their work to how it is perceived by individuals today. The essential questions for this lesson are: Have the ideas and perspectives about the main issue of the novel or play changed with time? To what extent has the issue been resolved? | 10 | |
| What Do You Think? Analyzing Points of View About an Issue | Many times the media presents controversial issues as black and white. But, most problems have many sides. The first research paper will require students to consider three perspectives on an issue. Their essential question is like the one modeled above. After doing background reading to determine three possible perspectives students will look at multiple resources (print to online) to determine the perspectives they wish to research and develop their own opinion based on their research. | 10 | |
| Thematic Analysis Research Paper - English 11: Part 3 - Note Taking | In a unit to write a thematic research paper for English, students return to the library for two final 90 minute class periods to access the sources discovered during the location and access days and begin to take notes for their research paper. The essential question is: How well is my theme supported in critical literature? | 11 | |
| Thematic Analysis Research Paper - English 11: Part 2 –Advanced Database Searching and Source Cards | In a unit to write a thematic research paper for English, students will analyze their thesis and come up with a list of keywords and terms to use in advanced searches on the library's online databases. The essential question for this lesson is: How can I use my knowledge of subscription databases and various search strategies to locate critical articles on my thesis topic? | 11 | |
| US History Researched Debate Project (Atomic Bomb) | Essential Question: Was it ethical for President Truman and the US military to drop the atomic bombs on Japan during World War II? | 11 |