Search: 120 minutes, 1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context.
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| Title | Overview | Grade | Average Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Washington: Was he a responsible family man as well as a great leader? | As a team effort, students will write a letter of recommendation to the editor of a local newspaper supporting the idea that George Washington was a good father and a great leader of our country. Essential Questions: What are primary sources? How could George Washington be a good father if he had no children of his own? Was George Washington a great leader? Why did he deserve to have a place on Mt. Rushmore? | 3, 4, 5 | |
| Community history | Seventh grade students conduct a community history investigation that centers on the essential questions: How has our community changed over time? What caused or influenced these changes? How can we find out? | 7 | |
| Rock Star Road Trip | Just what is there to do and see in this country anyway? We don't often ask students what their interests are. Through personal choice in music, this activity encourages students to visit other cities, apply real-world tools, and discover just what there is to do in other places. May be conducted collaboratively with music (genre), social studies (geography), and Math (economics)or may be taught in isolation. | 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 | |
| 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? | 6 | |
| 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. | 8 | |
| 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. | 8 |