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National History Day

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History Day has been the vehicle that creates an understanding and appreciation of history while developing the necessary 21st-century tools, skills and aptitudes for my diverse student population.

‑Martin Marrin, Teacher

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History Day has been the vehicle that creates an understanding and appreciation of history while developing the necessary 21st-century tools, skills and aptitudes for my diverse student population. ‑Martin Marrin, Teacher

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We trick them into writing papers.

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Traditional topics, but research is primarily on their own online or at their local library due to being a virtual school.

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Smaller researched projects & paper-trying to get away from long-form paper

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We do genius hour/20 time with our sophomores + issue awareness projects

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Media center assistants write a research paper.  I choose topics and they draw them from a hat. Tired of too many papers on teen depression!  Must use academic sources.

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Media center assistants write a research paper.  I choose topics and they draw them from a hat. Tired of too many papers on teen depression!  Must use academic sources.

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Students dive into court documents and affidavits to build their case and create arguments. Chromebooks!

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Student-chosen topics with NCWISEOwl sourcing (used to feed into the graduation project)

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Student-chosen topics with NCWISEOwl sourcing (used to feed into the graduation project)

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Teaching them the conventions of research, but more importantly teaching them to use it to make relevant and valid points.

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Human Rights topics

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Encyclopedia Britannica is available through NCWiseOwl online and it's pretty darn amazing...

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Encyclopedia Britannica is available through NCWiseOwl online and it's pretty darn amazing...

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Teachers look at websites and make sure they are reliable. The kids then do research using those pages and then write the paper. Our Media Coordinator helps with research process using NC Wise Owl.

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Variety of sources from Media Center, internet, or
interviews,

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Students dive into prepared court documents/affidavits.

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Hard to get kids to identify reliable sources
.edu and .gov over .com and .org

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Literary Synthesis Essays

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Google Scholar, pair with novel we're reading, research paper, sometimes presentation of the paper

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Chaotic - students struggle with expressing ideas in their words and in complex sentences.

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I team teach with my Innovation Learning Specialist , and we did a research break out session to help them use Google more efficiently. I go also do webquests on the writing process and student conferences as they progress through the research portion.

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media center, find sources, cite, something that looks like a thesis

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Send to Media Center, overview of digital/print sources, use of appropriate sources/information

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We are a virtual school so we work together to use the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as our anchor text to research online or books that they procure to complete their project on a world leader.

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Students study different ancient civilizations by STEM activities. Students complete LDC modules. (Learning Design Collaborative) Socratic seminars

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LDC unites a network of educators and uses disciplined inquiry cycles to test and refine our strategic supports for instructional improvement. An independent study by CRESST (UCLA) involving 110+ schools in LAUSD and NYC confirmed that LDC had a statistically-significant impact and large effects sizes that amounted to over 9 months additional growth over matched pair control students.

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Students use a variety of information sources to find what they need on a particular topic.  In our school, the final product is mostly either short essays or powerpoints.