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)
Good morning Kari,
ReplyDeleteUsing IT to trace primary source documents through a website such as Library of Congress and other history.org type websites and then creating an Excel worksheet is a effective way of incorporating the essential standards. The lessons on analyzing websites as well as citing sources, copyright issues and plagiarism will be useful tot he students as they prepare for high school research papers.
Hi Kari,
ReplyDeleteI want to share your blog with my 8th grade social studies teachers to show them how their subject matter overlaps with the essential standards for Sources of Information. They are so worried about getting the subject matter taught that they don't always see how projects can get the information taught and also provide a way of teaching the students how to analyze materials as well as summarizing, and evaluating the material they are reading and using. This is also a good time for the teachers to cover copyright and plagiarism.
Kari,
ReplyDeleteGood correlations! I also love Silvana's idea for using the LC for primary sources. My teachers are big on finding primary source information and we've used it a few times but I think now, with the IT standards, I can get them to try those sources a bit more.