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It is expected that students will:
A1 Apply critical thinking skills including:
- questioning
- comparing ( graphic organizers , social studies)
- summarizing
- drawing conclusions
- defending a position
Students who have fully met the prescribed learning outcome are able to:
1. make connections between events and their causes, consequences, and implications
2. compare a range of points of view on an issue, a situation, or a topic
3. draw conclusions about an issue, a situation, or a topic
4. assess and defend a variety of positions on an issue, a situation, or a topic
5. demonstrate leadership by planning, implementing, and assessing strategies to address an issue or a situation
Resources:
- The Critical Thinking Community
- Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History (simulation)
- What is historical thinking?
- Using historical fiction in the classroom to encourage a sense of "historical empathy"
- Rubric: Integrating all 5 learning outcomes into an essay
- Avoiding logical fallacies
- Factors in weighing evidence
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A2 Demonstrate effective research skills, including:
- accessing information
- assessing information francais (websites)
- collecting data
- evaluating data
- organizing information
- presenting information
- citing sources
Students who have fully met the prescribed learning outcome are able to:
- identify and clarify a problem or issue
- identify primary sources
(e.g., original documents (e.g. advertisements, letters and diaries), political cartoons, interviews, surveys) and
secondary sources (e.g., textbooks, articles, reports, summaries,
historical monographs) for selected topics
- plan and conduct research using primary and secondary sources, including sources
from a range of media types (e.g., print news, broadcast news, online)
representing a range of perspectives
- assess the reliability of information sources on selected topics in terms of bias and point of view
- evaluate and organize collected data (e.g., outlines, summaries, notes, timelines, charts)
- interpret information and data from a variety of maps, graphs, and tables
- interpret and present data in a variety of forms (e.g., oral, written, and graphic)
- accurately cite sources
Resources:
- Lesson plan: Examining primary source photographs in studing the settlement of the West
- More lesson plans using primary source
- Worksheet for analyzing political caricatures
- Handout: conducting an interview
- Using primary sources
- Five steps to better critical thinking (business example)
- Detailed: Information Literacy: set of skills from ACRL
- Information Skills Rating Scale
- Research Quest - model from the BCTLA
- SFU Editorial Cartoons Collection (modern examples but excellent teacher resources)
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A3
Demonstrate effective written, oral, and graphic communication skills, individually and collaboratively
Students who have fully met the prescribed learning outcome are able to:
- communicate ideas, opinions, and arguments effectively in oral and written forms
- construct graphs, tables, and maps to communicate ideas and information, demonstrating appropriate use of grids, scales, legends, and contours
- individually and collaboratively plan, revise, and deliver formal presentations that integrate a variety of media
RESOURCES:
Jourbal Writing from the perspective of a 19th century historical character
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