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Canadian history dbqs for Gifted and Talented
Historical Thinking Skills Activities
Historical thinking is a key skill for students to utilize when examining primary and secondary sources. In order for students to fully understand a source, they must examine it in-depth. These activities are designed to strengthen student's understanding of historical sources. They can be used with any type of historical document.
The Historical Thinking Skills Activities includes:
***Teacher Resources***
1. What is Historical Thinking (A letter for the teacher)
2. Think and Link – the step
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5th - 8th
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Love and War: Civil War Love Letters Primary Source Analysis
Unique Civil War Primary Source Activity. Students will analyze ten primary source "Love Letters" from 1861-1864 in order to analyze a shifting society through the preferred communication medium of the time-- letters. Students will use these documents to answer the essential question: "Who, or what, did people love during the Civil War?"Students may assume that these love letters will reveal that soldiers mainly loved their spouse or significant other. While that is overwhelmingly true, afte
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7th - 12th
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Europe, Australia, Latin America, and Canada - 625 Document Based Questions!
Europe, Australia, Latin America, and Canada DBQs - 625 DBQs and 15 Different Topics!!
This resource includes 15 different teacher-created Common Core Document Based Question (DBQs) files for Latin America, Europe, Australia, and Canada that contain 625 questions that reference primary and secondary sources such as political cartoons, graphs, tables, pictures, and excerpts of informational texts. These document based questions are excellent supplements for helping students understand the applic
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6th - 8th
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Slavery and Canada
An informational text on how the history of Slavery in Canada. This text examines the history of Black and Indigenous slavery in Canada. It looks at the jobs that slaves did and the conditions they lived in. It also covers the fight for abolition in Canada and the British Empire and the history of the Underground Railroad. The text attempts to center the experience marginalized groups and should help students relate history to the current period. This product contains differentiated versions of
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5th - 9th
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H.I.P.P. Primary Source Document Analysis
Graphic organizer that draws on historical thinking skills to identify and cite evidence of the Historical Context, Intended Audience, Author's Purpose, and Author's Point of View of a primary source document. Can be used with whole group instruction, small groups, or as a pre-writing tool for analytical essay writing.
Grades:
7th - 11th
Canada Location, Climate, and Natural Resources DBQ
This includes 3 Document Based Questions with maps, charts, pictures, graphs, and facts to provide students with the materials to create constructed responses using evidence. I recommend allowing students to work in groups of 4 and assigning roles to each student (writer, analyzer, evidence provider, and fact finder) to complete the DBQ. It covers these Georgia Social Studies standards:44a - describe how Canada's location, climate, and natural resources have affected where people live44b - descr
Grades:
6th - 12th
Aztec Demise - Drawing Conclusions and Learning Lessons from Primary Source Docs
This Google Doc file is designed for classrooms with 1:1 device access. It was designed to guide students through the Stanford History Education Group lesson "Moctezuma and Cortes." This Doc requires students to gather information about the demise of the Aztecs from the primary source documents provided by SHEG. Students will use these documents to confirm or refute the legend that Moctezuma gave his kingdom away to Cortes, believing he was the god Quetzacoatl come to Earth. Purchase of this ite
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6th - 12th
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What Is a Memoir? A French and Indian War DBQ
Memoirs are a sort of a primary source that can give us an eye-witness account, but they were written long after the events described. How should we rely on memory? What is useful to us in these accounts?
This Document-Based Query takes the learners through the voyages of one French soldier on the frontier, interacting with native people he calls 'savages'. The learner is challenged to analyze his memoir to see what he encountered and why people made the choices they did.
This activity can be
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7th - 10th
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Document Based Question: The Battle of Seven Oaks
Through an examination of five primary and secondary sources students are guided through a series of questions regarding the sources, and prompted to respond to the question: "Who should be held most responsible for causing the Battle of Seven Oaks?"
All necessary items for lesson, including a articulated rubric are provided in download.
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8th - 12th
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Galileo on Trial Package
This package is designed to work in conjunction with the Galileo lesson from the Stanford History Education Group. It requires students to analyze historical documents in order to determine whether Galileo was guilty or innocent of heresy.This package includes:1. Google Doc with directions for students and teachers. This document sets groups of students up to divide themselves into the roles of a court: prosecution, plaintiff, defense, and defendant. It instructs defense and prosecution in how t
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6th - 9th
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Document Based Argumentative Writing Unit: Can Child Criminals Be Saved
This is a high interest step-by-step unit for students using provided documents to write an argumentative paper about the idea of child criminals and the punishments/consequences they deserve. The unit includes answer key, teaching notes, planning organizers, and a rubric.
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9th - 12th
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ACER Style Scholarship Paper for Grades 4-7
Australian Council for Education Research (ACER) high-stake style- exam for students wanting to pass SCHOLARSHIP tests. * Includes one complete set of FULL 4 tests. * ANSWERS included.Test 1: Written Expression (25minutes)Test 2: Humanities Comprehension and Interpretation (40minutes)Test 3: Mathematics and Science (40minutes)Test 4: Written Expression (25minutes)
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4th - 8th, Staff
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16th Amendment - "Income Tax" - Enhanced DBQ - Close Read (PDF for Handouts)
A PERFECT ACTIVITY FOR TAX DAY!
In studying this Amendment, your students will learn the history behind taxing income, an indepth study of the 16th Amendment, and a Matching assessment quiz.
An Enhanced Document-Based Question Unit that includes elements of Close Reading Strategies to gain a GREATER understanding of the 16th Amendment - "Income Tax". This lesson includes:
* Lesson Plan
* Lesson Plan Narrative and Reasoning Guide
* Common Core Standards Correlation
* Primary and Secondary Sou
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5th - 12th
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Wonder by R.J. Palacio Picasso Project
My 6th grade students fell in love with not only Auggie, but all of the other wonderful characters in Wonder. At the end of the unit, students learned about Picasso & attempted to create art much like the famous painter based on a character from Wonder. Their creations & writing were astounding. Turn YOUR classroom into an art gallery, too!
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5th - 7th
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Document Based Question: The Northwest Rebellion
Through an examination of five primary and secondary sources (including political cartoon) students are guided through a series of questions regarding the sources, and prompted to respond to the question: "To what extent should John A Macdonald be held responsible for causing the Northwest Rebellion?"
An excellent change from typical "Louis Riel: Hero or Traitor?" essays and debates.
A rubric is provided for ease of assessment.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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The Last Best West - Analyze the Ads
Students assess whether or not the ads used by the Ministry of the Interior at the turn of the 19th century measure up to the accuracy and truth standards as set out by the Canadian Standards for Truth in Advertising.
PROCEDURE: Students will examine several advertising posters and copy, and compare these with several primary and secondary sources [text/images] from the actual experience of settlers who immigrated to the Canadian West. Students then assess the advertisements against the standa
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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War of 1812 Primary Source Analysis Activity
This document includes 4 primary sources (with background), which students may use to answer the question:-How did conflict affect life in North America during the Madison presidency?Students should use a primary source guide, such as the "Written Document Analysis Worksheet" from archives.gov to analyze the four sources. The documents analyze conflict from the following 4 perspectives:-Tecumseh, Shawnee leader of the "Pan-Indian" resistance-Republican "Warhawks" in Congress-William Dunlop, a B
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8th - 12th
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Natural Texas and its People - DBQ - Texas History
Students will analyze four documents to answer the prompt: How did Texas Native Americans adapt to their geography and climate?Packets covers:What is a DBQ?Primary vs. Secondary sourcesBeringiaAn excerpt from Cabeza de Vaca's La RelacionMap of where Native Americans settled in TexasExamples of different types of shelters used by Texas Native AmericansBrainstorming page2 lined pages to write the essayDBQs are a GREAT way to prepare your students for advanced and AP classes!Remember the Alamo and
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5th - 10th
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Brain Teasers Problem Solving + Riddles + Puzzles + Escape Rooms + Inferencing
Are you needing to entertain and challenge your kids with this compelling collection of brain-twisting activities! Look no further! This activity includes 300 activities for you to choose from. Anything from escape rooms, virtual field trips, math puzzles, and bell ringers. Daily exit tickets as well! What are you waiting for?
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Brain Teasers Problem Solving + Riddles + Puzzles + Escape Rooms + Inferencing
Are you needing to entertain and challenge your kids with this compelling collection of brain-twisting activities! Look no further! This activity includes 200 activities for you to choose from. Anything from escape rooms, virtual field trips, math puzzles, and bell ringers. Daily exit tickets as well! What are you waiting for?
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2nd - 3rd
Fur Trade Primary Source Worksheet:1805 Journal Near the Rocky Mountains
This worksheet allows students to use a primary source document to learn about the fur trade along the Rocky Mountains during the early 1800s. The worksheet allows students to read parts of a journal by Francois Antoine Larocque and his interactions with the Anishinaabe and Crow Native Americans along the American and Canadian border. The worksheet includes eight questions and an answer key for the teacher. Students are also encouraged to use a highlighter to focus on important concepts from the
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6th - 12th
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Also included in: Fur Trade Lesson Plan Collection
The Invention of Peace Keeping: Canada and the Suez Crisis
This reading and document based questions is on the Suez Crisis in Egypt in 1956. The history of the crisis also touches on France and Great Britain, and their enduring colonial legacy in Africa. It also explores how peacekeeping was invented in response to the crisis and why Lester B Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.This is a differentiated reading. Level 1 is 556 words with a Flesch Reading Ease score of 62.7. Level 2 is 473 words with a Flesch Reading Ease Score of 68
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5th - 7th
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Teaching Socratic Seminars to Students (SPIDER Style)
If you want to teach your students a fun way of having a deep conversation in class, look no futher! This activiy include a hand out rubric for all stduents to have and follow as well as a power point slide show to explain how a SPIDER or Socratic Seminar work.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Also included in: Thinking Like A Historian Unit
Diversity in American Colonial Societies; From Latin America to Canada. DBQ
This assignment contains four primary sources covering diversity in the American colonies from Latin America to Canada. (1.) Portrait of Saint Martin de Porres (1579-1639 CE)(2.) Account of Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa of the city of Quito 1735 CE.(3.) Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo, attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez, c. 1715 CE, oil on canvas (Breamore House, Hampshire, UK)(4.) Account of French Nun Devoted to Instructing Amerindian Girls. 1688 CE Each document has 1-4 questions eac
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Also included in: Entire Year of World History DBQs
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