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***IF YOU ARE IN THE OCT-NOV 2021 RUN OF THIS COURSE, CLICK HERE. ***This is a space for all participants in the July 2021 run of our pilot online course, "Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Primary Source Questions," to share the lesson plans that they developed over the course of 4 weeks. Enjoy reading the creative work that these educators have done!
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This is a beginning of the year Kindergarten lesson plan for a PBL unit on Community. This particular 4 day lesson will be a part of a much bigger unit where children will answer the driving question: “How do we get to know each other and create a strong community?” Pre K - 2 Kindergarten PBL Community
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Attached is a lesson which aims to deepen student understanding of the relationship between the colonists and Great Britain during the American Revolution. It is a social studies lesson intended to be taught to a 7th Grade U.S. History class.
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Second grade Social Studies lesson comparing past and present practices to celebrate Thanksgiving. Pre K - 2 Social Studies/History Thanksgiving Interviews
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QFT Lesson Plan for Core Literature in relation to maps and mapmaking in the pre- and early modern world. This lesson plan makes reference to a video library exhibit (also developed by the instructor) thus it has an intermediate step between the asking and prioritizing questions and the reflection.
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This lesson focus on analyzing the consequences of the Westward Expansion for both Native Americans and Pioneers.
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Middle School Civil War Social Studies lesson about what soldiers do between battles.
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This lesson sequence is for primary grades. It uses a primary source from the Library of Congress as a hook to engage students in the study of community helpers. It fits with civics topics in the social studies curriculum but can be integrated across the curriculum. Pre K - 2 3 - 5 Social Studies/History Special Education Art/Music English/Language Arts Science
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9 - 12 Manifest Destiny Social Studies/History Western Expansion
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A proposed Session Plan exploring the Bill of Rights (US), via Primary Source digital references at the Library of Congress. Bill of Rights
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This lesson is meant to help students with the process of analyzing sources. They will then use the questions generated to practice the research process, as if they were going to answer their questions in a research project.
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I share the proposal of the QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan: "Plan of Iguala and Trigarante Army", 1821 "
Thank you very much for what you shared and learned.
Best regards from Querétaro, Mexico
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QFT lesson plan on Ecosystem Interactions through the QFocus of Bisosphere 2.
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Sports in United States History is a new elective available to high school students in Georgia. This QFT lesson addresses the standard that requires students to analyze race, ethnicity, and social class in sports. Using baseball as a case study, the Q Focus utilizes the juxtaposition of two primary sources directly addressing the standard.
The Library of Congress has a rich repository of primary sources that address the standard. The lesson utilizes primary sources and a background reading from the Baseball Across a Changing Nation text set.
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This lesson focuses on the impact of the Magna Carta. Best used for 8th-12th grade students. 6 - 8 9 - 12 Social Studies/History worldhistory unitedstateshistory
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Hello,
This is my lesson plan, feel free to give me any feedback so I can improve it.
Regards. 13+ Social Studies/History
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This is a lesson about Ona Judge.
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See lesson plan below.
This lesson was created by Nairobi Orr
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"We are on the right path to the American Dream" [cartoon]
Policy and pie [video] Summary: The Captain gets a life insurance policy and gives it to his wife. In gratitude she makes him a pie. The Katzenjammer Kids play a trick on the Captain and sneak toads into his pie so that he would think his wife is trying to poison him.
Simple photo that will drive student thinking:
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Students will generate questions about a photo of a Depression Era family to discuss ways that a narrator's perspective changes a story and how point of view impacts plot, theme, conflict.
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This lesson plan was created by Marjorie Moyer.
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Law teaching with primary sources and the QFT.
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This is an introductory QFT for a unit on Colonial North America. This jigsaw map analysis will help students to understand the complex nature of North America also all of the peoples and countries involved.
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This is one 3rd grade social studies lesson of a unit on Movement Around Our World.
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This lesson focuses on the three branches of U.S. government. Through this lesson, students will come to know the origin of the three branches and each branch’s role in government and in upholding the Constitution and giving voice to the American people. Depending on students' prior knowledge and the level of depth students are ready for, this lesson could need from two days to a week for completion.
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This QFT lesson is to be used for APUSH at the start of the unit on the American Revolution.
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This QFocus will jumpstart teacher PD on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). It could also be used in middle school social studies (life prior to WWI or after reconstruction), ELA (unit on immigration), art, and more. English/Language Arts Library Social Studies/History 6 - 8 9 - 12 EDI Equity Inclusion
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This WW2 topic is taught in advance of reading the novel Carrie's War by Nina Bawden. The purpose is to give the students background knowledge of the events happening in England in 1939 so that they can have a richer understanding and connection to the story.
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This particular WW2 topic is taught in advance of reading Carrie's War by Nina Bawden.
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Unit 1 of AP Capstone Seminar an introduction to close reading and team building. Focus on close "reading" of all sorts of media not just text. AP Seminar English/Language Arts Social Studies/History 9 - 12
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This QFT lesson plan is in its "rough" draft stages. I believe it will be a good starting point for my work, but some elements have me wondering about when I am using the QFT process and how the results might vary.
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Introduction to the lesson Light Travels in Grade 1.
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Opening lesson for Of Mice and Men with the learning intention to give students contextual information about the novel's setting and circumstances. This will be before we read the opening chapter.
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Students will develop questions about how the narrator's perspective and point of view is impacted by a variety of factors. STudents will try multiple viewpoints from the same photograph and develop a set of questions to ask themselves about the narrator in independent reading and book clubs. English/Language Arts 6 - 8
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6 - 8 Social Studies/History flight historyOfFlight wrightbrothers QFT QFocus primarySource
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Hi Everyone,
This lesson plan fits into my first unit in AP Government and politics on the foundations of our constitutional system. I tried for leverage the QFT near the end of the unit, instead of the beginning, and I think it might work. We'll see how it goes this september!
Thanks for a fun course,
Wesley
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This is the opening lesson for a larger inquiry unit on the Solar System for upper elementary aged students.
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Gender bias and stereotypes in sports, WW2
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This lesson is geared for a Middle School unit on Native Americans. The objective is to understand the distinct and unique culture of two Montana tribes and how they navigate traditional culture in modern times. 6 - 8 Social Studies/History
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Here is my lesson plan embedding QFT into a lesson leading to a Unit on Reconstruction and the writing of a DBQ essay. It comes after students have background on the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War. Social Studies/History 9 - 12
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Social Studies/History 6 - 8 Women's Suffrage
This social studies lesson plan is for grade 8 students. It is part of a unit for the topic of Women's Suffrage. Please keep in mind when you view this lesson plan that I am a technology integrator. I do not have my own classroom so I need to pitch this lession idea to the two grade 8 social studies teachers to try it out in the 2021-2022 school year. Wish me luck!
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Using maps to analyze changing size of reservations in Montana.
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This is my initial QFocus that I'm planning to use as part of my Nature of Science introductory unit in my physical science class.
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Mine is very simplistic. I'm not great at writing the detailed lesson plans. Feel free to message me with questions if you have any. 6 - 8 middleschool geography immigration
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This is a QFT lesson on slavery, Abraham Lincoln, and the 13th Amendment. I have not taught this lesson with students, but I hope it provides some ideas and is helpful for others. It is written to the Nevada Academic Content Standards for social studies. 9 - 12 Social Studies/History
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Sophomore World History lesson on World War I and the Christmas Truce to illustrate the change in soldier morale over the course of the war.
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In this lesson plan I describe how I'd use QFT to encourage my students to ask questions about (social) media usage. We then use both objective/factual and subjective answers/opinions to write an essay in which the students argue whether or not they think media usage is bad.
Unfortunately my sources are in Dutch, but no doubt you'll be able to find the same sources in English! (I tried a quick search but wasn't satisfied with what I found - but if anyone has suggestions, feel free to comment!)
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This is the first lesson in the first ELA Unit of the year. Lesson 1: Getting Ready to Learn about Human Rights
DAY 1 – Revisiting Class Norms for Group Discussions.
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In this lesson snapshot, a fourth-grade class in Nevada explores the science and history behind the Hoover Dam through a primary source from the Library of Congress. Putting a virtual magnifying glass to a 1938 photograph, students want to know: “How do they build buildings in the water?”
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In this lesson, we will start investigating the measurement of motion. Below are the lesson objectives:
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