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Critical thinking physical science dbqs for Microsoft Word
Charlemagne DBQ
This DBQ addresses the theme of The Origins of Power. Where does power come from? Who gets it? We are using the Emperor Charles the Great (usually called ‘Charlemagne’ in the English world) as an example of someone who gathered up and kept power over a large part of Europe. Students are challenged to read primary documents carefully and choose the answer that best describes the situation.
We begin by setting the stage with a very brief synopsis of Western Rome falling. The Germanic tr
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8th - 11th
Halloween Infographic Analysis
Students analyze data from 10 different infographics about Halloween. I plan to lay out the 10 infographics around the room and let students rotate through the different stations. You could also upload the infographics to an online learning page, like Schoology, and have students answer the questions from the computer. *Note: the printers at my school do not print in color. All of the questions students will be able to answer without the colors on the graphs.
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8th - 12th
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Socratic Seminar Guide for Teachers (Common Core)
**Updated**
Socratic Seminar have so many benefits for students and developing their critical thinking skills.
Includes assessment ideas for seminar.
Use this easy guide to help get you started with using Socratic Seminars within your classroom. I have used seminars for all subject areas and use this guide for staff professional development as well as introducing to my students.
This is a word document, so you can change to meet your classroom needs.
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4th - 12th
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Politizing Psychiatry and Mental Health
Political abuse of psychiatry, also commonly referred to as punitive psychiatry investigation prompt and topic outline breaking down critical analysis motivating government's purpose and involvement in personal health as a protection or a liability against individual's privacy and freedom from mental health diagnoses and labeling being shared with government. Is it helping or hurting us? Is it obstructing the human rights of individuals and/or groups in a society or protecting them from a even m
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9th - 12th
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Chemical Bonding: Soap and Social Justice Discussion
Use this discussion as part of your chemical bonding unit to your culturally responsive classroom. Have students consider the usefulness of soap and the consequences of not having access to it. Students will consider the question: "should soap be considered a basic human right?" Throughout the unit and use their knowledge of chemical bonding to provide evidence for their response. They will ultimately make soap to see the process and chemistry behind it.
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Chemical Bonding: Soap and Social Justice Unit
Suspicious Activity Lesson
Class warm-up or follow-up to previous or new lessons about government and politics using Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to investigate data collection and gathering conducted by the federal government. Useful as warm-up discussion prompt, essay prompt, online discussion board, in-class group project and presentation, lesson handout, independent guided research, individual research-based essay, or critical response as an open-ended question on comprehensive exams and study guides on governme
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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The Boston Massacre: Murder or Self-Defense?
This is a 3-4 day lesson, not only about the Boston Massacre, but about bias and point of view in history. Students are encouraged to think critically and examine an issue from both sides in order to formulate their own opinion regarding the issue. The final activity asks them to compose a piece of writing to express their opinion and to back it us with facts and research.
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8th - 12th
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Historical Thinking Sentence Starters
These "historical thinking" sentence starters help students write and think like historians. You'll be amazed at how much their writing changes!
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8th - 11th
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Mesopotamia Egypt Jigsaw and Venn
Students will analyze 4 (8 total) separate documents comparing and contrasting Egypt and Mesopotamia. Students will move around from station to station teaching one another about a different feature of these early river valley civilizations. This can be topped off with a Venn diagram or done in a jigsaw fashion. Lesson Plan and questions included
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7th - 11th
U.S. History STAAR 2.0 Formatted Activities
This product is specifically designed to correlate with the U.S. History STAAR 2.0 Assessment. The product contains a total of 20 U.S. History STAAR 2.0 formatted activities and questions.
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10th - 12th
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Causes of Climate Change DBQ
This DBQ has students analyze documents in order to assess if the changes to climate and the current trends can be completely attributed to natural causes or if human activity is playing a role.
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9th - 12th
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Boston Massacre Document Analysis
Students will be guided through analyzing four documents to determine if the Boston Massacre was self defense or murder. This activity helps students build valuable DBQ skills.
For each document students must find evidence, paraphrase and create arguments that support either a self defense or murder charge.
This activity can then be turned into a trial class activity where each side needs to present their case or DBQ essay.
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5th - 9th
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Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" Analysis Questions
This document has instructions for while students are reading to help with their understanding of the text. It also contains 10 questions which require students to analyze the speech and decipher the meaning, structure, tone, emphasis and importance of this iconic speech. This can be done in class, as an exit ticket or as a homework assignment.
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8th - 12th
Misleading Headlines
Students create their own headlines for photos to experience how easy it is to write manipulative headlines. For each photo, students are asked to create a positive headline and a negative headline to fit the photo.
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7th - 12th
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Advertisements of the Roaring Twenties: Document-Based Question
This is one of my favorite Document-Based Questions because of the outstanding high-quality picture advertisements (THERE ARE A WHOPPING TWELVE- they took me a long time to find in such high quality) from the Roaring Twenties and the discussion that ensues after they are analyzed. I've made it free because I really want all US History teachers to try this; I've had a lot of fun with it and I hope you do too!
The following DBQ requires students to carefully analyze advertisements from the 1920'
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10th - 12th
NYS Regents United States History Short Essay Question Will Smith and Chris Rock
This assignment is designed as a fun way to introduce historical context, identifying bias and purpose in a short answer question (SAQ). The questions are set up to mirror the new NYS Regents exam, but can also be used in a AP history course.
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7th - 12th
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Thinking Like A Historian Priming Activity
A classroom discussion with a standards-based grading rubric which students follow the NGSS Standards for MS US History to have a discussion about the upcoming school year. This can be used to establish routines in August or January. It can be facilitated as a Socratic Circle or a Classroom Debate. This develops use of claims backed by evidence in a real-world context. SS.6-8.A.1.1 Provide supporting details for an answer from text, interview for oral history, check validity of information from
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5th - 8th
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Roanoke Socratic Circle
This Socratic Circle is over the mystery of the settlement of Roanoke, the "Lost Colony". It includes a reading over the different theories of the events that occurred in Roanoke, a page of critical thinking analysis questions, an outer circle questions page and also a grading rubric for the activity.
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8th - 12th
Causes of the Water Scarcity Crisis
This lesson is for a 45 minute world history class for 9-12th graders. The lesson covers the causes of the Water Scarcity Crisis. The lesson includes a one page lesson plan description. The lesson is comprised of 6 primary and secondary source documents that can be used for a small group or whole class debate/discussion. Following the document analysis, there is a writing prompt that will prepare students for discussion. Also, the lesson includes 4 multiple choice questions.A well-designed lesso
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9th - 12th
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Causes of Desertification
This lesson is for a 45 minute world history class for 9-12th graders. The lesson covers the causes of Desertification. The lesson includes a one page lesson plan description. The lesson is comprised of 6 primary and secondary source documents that can be used for a small group or whole class debate/discussion. Following the document analysis, there is a writing prompt that will prepare students for discussion. Also, the lesson includes 4 multiple choice questions.A well-designed lesson plan can
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9th - 12th
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Non-fiction Article Critical Reading- Word Doc
With 'fake news' so prevalent, our students need to be taught how to read with a critical eye. Guide students through reading of a fact based article with this document. The form can be used with any non-fiction article at any reading level. Each student can be encouraged to choose an article that interests them while being taught how to critically evaluate the resource. Students will be asked to: identify main idea/hypothesis, cite support, find bias, identify unknown vocabulary, compare a simi
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6th - 12th
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DEBATING THE PAST: The Frontier and the West
In this seminar students will discuss this Compelling Question: What is the Myth of the West, what is its impact and what kind of reaction (if any) should we have to it?
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8th - 12th
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DOCUMENT CONNECTIONS - INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - WORD FORMAT (New Global Regents)
Please consider posting a review, it would be greatly appreciated!These activities are a part of my DOCUMENT CONNECTIONS series. They are designed to give students experience responding to the types of questions in the new Social Studies Framework and the new Global 10 New York State Regents Exam. - analyzing documents- using new terminology- recognizing historical events and time periods in given documents- organizing and classifying sets of documents- making claims- recognizing quality claims
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10th
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Also included in: BUNDLE DOCUMENT CONNECTIONS (NEW GLOBAL REGENTS) WORD ZIP
What Caused the Civil War?
What Caused the Civil War? The time was 4:30 in the morning; the day was April 12, 1861. Cannons from the mainland began to spew fire and lob shells into Fort Sumter--at this early hour just faintly visible on the horizon. America’s terrible Civil War began. When the war finally ended four years later the enslaved were free and the Union was preserved—but at the cost of 600,000 American lives and more than five billion dollars in property damage. What had caused the Union to split? Who was
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6th - 12th
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