Search: 4.4.3 Recognize how to focus efforts in personal learning.
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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 | |
| 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. | 8 | |
| 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 | |
| U.S. Westward Expansion | Students will explore the significant changes that people experienced during the westward expansion of our country. We will discuss the many areas of people's lives that were different from what we currently experience. This includes: food, clothes, travel, houses, entertainment, landscape, wildlife etc. We will discuss why we are even talking about these things. Essential Question: Is it important for us to know about people and things that came before us? | 5 | |
| Use and Evaluation of Online Resources | During this lesson the students explore specific research sites with the intent of acquiring the ability to critique a research site for its worthiness as a valid research tool for their purposes, concentrating on accuracy, validity, appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context. They will also master navigation of each site while adding to their search skills. | 11, 12 |