Connections with IT Essential Standards and 8th Grade Social Studies.
8th Grade Social Studies has a focus on evaluating how valid the sources are that have been used to create the story of settling the colonies/North Carolina/the US. This overlaps with the essential standards for Sources of Information, which include analyzing resources for reliability, bias, and relevance. (8.H.1.4 and 8.SI.1)
8th Grade Social Studies also has a focus on analyzing the ideals that our country was founded on. The objectives focus on summarizing, evaluating, analyzing, and explaining the information available. This also overlaps with the essential standards for Sources of Information, which include analyzing resources for reliability, bias, and relevance. It also overlaps with the essential standards that deal with organizing information. Furthermore, summarizing, evaluating, analyzing, and explaining fit with project-based research. (8.C&G.1 and 8.SI.1 and 8.TT.1.2 and 8.RP.1)
