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QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plans (July 2021)

Album Description

***IF YOU ARE IN THE OCT-NOV 2021 RUN OF THIS COURSECLICK 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! 

Kindergarten QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan-for PBL Unit on Community- OZEKI.pdf

Teaching Notes

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  

Social Studies Lesson - American Revolution Grade 7.docx

Teaching Notes

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. 

QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan Weather Forecast.docx

QFT 2nd Grade Thanksgiving Maskers Lesson .pdf

Teaching Notes

Second grade Social Studies lesson comparing past and present practices to celebrate Thanksgiving.  Pre K - 2     Social Studies/History    Thanksgiving    Interviews  

QFT-Maps and their Secrets Lesson Plan (Higher Ed)

Teaching Notes

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.

QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan - Migration.pdf

Teaching Notes

This lesson focus on analyzing the consequences of the Westward Expansion for both Native Americans and Pioneers. 

Urban Sprawl QFT Lesson Plan GRADE 6

QFT-Primary source- Native American Migration.pdf

Middle School Civil War Lesson.docx

Teaching Notes

Middle School Civil War Social Studies lesson about what soldiers do between battles.

Learning About Community Helpers, Primary Grades, Social Studies, Civics

Teaching Notes

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  

American Progress QFT.pdf

QFT - PRIMARY SOURCE - BILL OF RIGHTS - SESSION PLAN TEMPLATE - JULY 2021.pdf

Teaching Notes

A proposed Session Plan exploring the Bill of Rights (US), via Primary Source digital references at the Library of Congress.     Bill of Rights  

Use of Models in Science_6th Grade_QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan Final.docx

Teaching Notes

  6 - 8    Science  

Intro to Analyzing Sources lesson plan.pdf

Teaching Notes

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. 

QFT PrimarySourceLPT_Erasmo M..pdf

Teaching Notes

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

QFT PrimarySourceLPT_Erasmo M..pdf

Kimberly King 3rd Grade Macy's Day Parade STEM_ QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan.pdf

Teaching Notes

  3rd    STEM  

QFT 7th Grade Science - Ecosystem Interactions.pdf

Teaching Notes

QFT lesson plan on Ecosystem Interactions through the QFocus of Bisosphere 2.

HS Analyze Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Sports.docx

Teaching Notes

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. 

QFT Magna Carta 8th-12th (Kristin Lawler)

Teaching Notes

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  

Imperialism and expantion Civil War

Teaching Notes

Hello, 

This is my lesson plan, feel free to give me any feedback so I can improve it. 

Regards.   13+    Social Studies/History  

Michelle QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan Template.pdf

Teaching Notes

This is a lesson about Ona Judge. 

Gr. 12 QFT Lesson Plan_ Examining Japanese Prints by T. Quindlen.docx - Google Docs.pdf

Teaching Notes

  #AP ART HIstory    #QFT    #Japanese Prints  

The American Dream

Teaching Notes

See lesson plan below. 

This lesson was created by   Nairobi Orr  

Sources links/materials:

"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:

  qft    americandream    Social Studies/History    9 - 12  

Heat Energy: Temperature and its Measurement

Teaching Notes

This lesson was created by   Thomas David Akpa .

  qft    Science    9 - 12    physics  

Role of Narrator Through Primary Source Photo

Teaching Notes

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.

plotelements   DustBowlMigration   English/Language Arts  

College QFT Lesson Plan: Durer Self Portrait by M. Moyer

Teaching Notes

This lesson plan was created by Marjorie Moyer. 

Luis Raúl Hidalgo López - QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan (2).pdf

Teaching Notes

Law teaching with primary sources and the QFT.
 

Luis Raúl Hidalgo López - QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan.pdf

Teaching Notes

Law teaching with primary sources and the QFT.

7th and 8th Grade History - Using Primary Sources QFT

Teaching Notes

  6 - 8    Library    Social Studies/History  

The Roots of Jim Crow QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan

QFT - 4th Grade Colonial North America.pdf

Teaching Notes

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.

3rd Grade Social Studies: Movement Around Our World

Teaching Notes

This is one 3rd grade social studies lesson of a unit on Movement Around Our World.  

QFT Primary Sources Lesson Plan (July 2021) - Korean War (Kennedy Loo_Singapore).docx

TPS-QFT Lesson Plan-5th-8th grade-K Brent.pdf

Teaching Notes

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.

QFT Religion and the American Revolution - APUSH

Teaching Notes

This QFT lesson is to be used for APUSH at the start of the unit on the American Revolution.

QFT Lesson-Heritage Spanish- Causes of Chicano Civil Rights Movement- HS.pdf (AnneMarie Chase)

QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan on Equity PD or MS Social Studies.pdf

Teaching Notes

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  

Folklife & Folklore Adult Secondary Writing QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan, Summer 2021

QFT Primary Source LP Grade 5 WW2 Child Evacuees.docx

Teaching Notes

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.

WORD QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan Child Evacuees Word War 2 Grade 5.docx

Teaching Notes

This particular WW2 topic is taught in advance of reading Carrie's War by Nina Bawden.  

QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan(KXF).docx

QFT and Sleep.pdf

Teaching Notes

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  

Events leading to the American Revolution grade 5 QFT.docx

QFT Lesson_ Intro to Pre-Columbian Civilizations.pdf

New Deal QFT Lesson Plan High School U.S. History.pdf

Observation Journal QFT- Grade 6- Science - Primary Source Lesson Plan Template.pdf

Teaching Notes

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. 

Light Travels Grade 1 by Kateryna Jzaerli_QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan.pdf

Teaching Notes

Introduction to the lesson Light Travels in Grade 1. 

Of Mice and Men Y10 Primary Source Lesson Plan.pdf

Teaching Notes

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. 

Role of Narrator-Primary Source Lesson Plan Template.pdf

Teaching Notes

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  

Joey Buyske-QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan.pdf

AP Government QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan Wes Webb.pdf

Teaching Notes

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

Solar System QFT Primary Source Lesson Plan-grade 4.docx

Teaching Notes

This is the opening lesson for a larger inquiry unit on the Solar System for upper elementary aged students.

  3 - 5    Library    Science  

Women in Baseball 4th- 6th grade

Teaching Notes

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Gender bias and stereotypes in sports, WW2

Distinct MT Tribes- 6-8th.pdf

Teaching Notes

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  

G.Small DOCS QFT Colored Men Enlisted in Civil War Primary Source Lesson Plan.docx

Teaching Notes

 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  

AGravesELA8thChiefCharlotPOV.pdf

QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan.docx

Teaching Notes

  Social Studies/History  

Women's Suffrage QFT Primary Source Lesson Plan

Teaching Notes

  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!

_QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan .docx

Teaching Notes

Using maps to analyze changing size of reservations in Montana.

Anthony Brown QFT Being Skeptical, grades 11-12, Physical Science

Teaching Notes

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. 

QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan.pdf

Teaching Notes

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

QFT-Algonquin Village Primary Source Lesson (1).pdf

Lincoln _ Slavery QFT Primary Source Lesson Plan

Teaching Notes

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  

Stricklin_ Los bandos de la guerra civil española_QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan

Teaching Notes

  la guerra civil    los bandos    España  

Grade 10-Social Studies-WWI Continuity and Change lesson using Christmas Truce-E. Faulhaber .pdf

Teaching Notes

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. 

STACK QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan Template.docx

Sherry Bovey--Trinity Site.docx

QFT - (Social) media usage, objective and subjective answers, and essay writing

Teaching Notes

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!)

  9 - 12    English/Language Arts    Dutch  

Human Rights and Class Norms for Small Group Discussions QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan Template (1).docx

Teaching Notes

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.

5    ELA/SS  

Social Action & Reform, Photojournalist Riis -9th grade Art Appreciation.docx

QFT - Arizona Geography, History, and Economics 3rd Grade .pdf

QFT & Primary Sources Lesson Plan 4th Grade Hoover Dam Nevada.pdf

Teaching Notes

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?”

  bestof  

Steve Morris QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan.pdf

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QFT Lesson Plan_ Watergate_11th grade_US History.docx

QFT Lesson Plan: Watergate/11th grade/US History

Sliding Rocks- Physics Measuring Motion Lesson using QFT-Primary Source.pdf

Teaching Notes

In this lesson, we will start investigating the measurement of motion. Below are the lesson objectives:

  • explore measuring motion ( how do we know the rock is moving). The questions from the QFT will lead to the shared experiences that will be applied to answering the QFT questions
    • distance/displacement ( experience with walking lab- apply)
    • acceleration of rock ( experience with “How does a pedometer work?”
    • velocity/speed ( students design an experiment measuring position, velocity, acceleration of a person’s movement and graph data against time)
    • force and acceleration relationships (force to move experiment)  9 - 12    Science    Physics  

freedom and society: grade 12 elective Individual and Society

QFT Civil Rights Movement gr. 8

Map Connections DOCS QFT-Primary Source Lesson Plan.pdf

Dust Bowl- Out of the Dust (6th grade Montana standards).pdf