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Brainstorming Topic Ideas for 10th Grade U.S. History
- 1. Brainstorming Topic Ideas Lesson #1 10th Grade U.S. History Ms. Barker 6/7/15
- 2. Outline • Quick introduction to project • Pre-Demo Padlet Activity • Demonstration • Independent search activity • Post-search activity • Conclusion
- 3. Project Details – Part 1 • Research Paper –Write a 4-6 page biographical paper • Primary and Secondary Sources Needed – Choose an individual with a “neglected” voice in U.S. history [that means no presidents] – Paper needs to answer these questions: • What was life like for this individual? What were their daily struggles? Did this individual affect major change? How does this personal knowledge influence our ideas about this time period?
- 4. Project Details – Part 2 • Instagram PowerPoint Presentation – 10 slide presentation (will use provided template) – Presentation will chronicle your individual’s life [you will choose how best to do this] – Must include a description and three comments from relevant individuals/organizations – Will use images from provided websites – Citation required (even for copyright free images)
- 5. Pre-Demo Activity [30 seconds to complete] *Complete Pre-Padlet Activity
- 6. Time Periods • Chapter 13: Settling the West, 1865–1900 • Chapter 14: Industrialization, 1865–1901 • Chapter 15: Urban America, 1865–1896 • Chapter 16: Politics and Reform, 1877–1896 • Chapter 17: Becoming a World Power, 1872–1912 • Chapter 18: The Progressive Movement, 1890–1919 • Chapter 19: World War I and Its Aftermath, 1914– 1920 • Chapter 20: The Jazz Age, 1921–1929 • Chapter 21: Normalcy and Good Times, 1921–1929 • Chapter 22: The Great Depression Begins, 1929– 1932
- 7. Where would you start your research process?
- 9. Reasons to Use • Wikipedia is great for basic general knowledge –Overview with subtopics –Important terms and phrases –Information is verified with external resources –Additional information associated with articles, including videos, audio, photographs, literature, notes, etc.
- 11. Reasons to NOT Use • Do not cite general encyclopedia • Content is user produced and edited –Anyone can add, modify, or delete content* • Page content is not static* *Will explain in demonstration
- 12. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s founder: “It is pretty good, but you have to be careful with it…It’s good enough knowledge, depending on what your purpose is” (Young, "Wired Campus Wikipedia Founder Discourages Academic Use of His Creation Comments").
- 13. Wikipedia Secondary Source (i.e. scholarly articles, books, etc.) Primary Source (i.e. personal documents, photographs, letters, etc.)
- 14. Demonstration [≈5 minutes to complete]
- 15. Independent Search Activity [≈5 minutes to complete] *Complete Post Padlet Activity & homework (if time)
- 16. What did you learn? Any questions?
- 17. Conclusion • Quick introduction to project • Brainstormed topic ideas • Demonstration on how to search effectively on Wikipedia • Independent search activity • Regroup
- 18. Bibliography • Young, Jeffrey R. "Wired Campus Wikipedia Founder Discourages Academic Use of His Creation Comments." The Chronicle of High Education. 12 June 2006. Web. 7 July 2015. <http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/ wikipedia-founder-discourages-academic- use-of-his-creation/2305>.
Editor's Notes
- Good evening everyone! My name is Ms. Barker and for those who don’t know me I am one of the school librarians for the Barrington High School. For this unit, I am going to be collaborating with Mr. Pickford to assist you with your research project. And today, we are going to be discussing the first step of that process, which is brainstorming a topic idea.
- Before we begin, I would like to run through an outline of lesson today First, I will quickly go over your project again with you. Next, I would like to do a quick activity to gauge what you are currently thinking about for topic ideas. Then, I will be demonstrating an effective search technique. Next, you will be conducting your own independent searches, in which during that time you will be finishing the post-search activity Lastly, we will wrap up
- I know that Mr. Pickford has gone over this with you a few times now, but I wanted to pop up the project details just to get us thinking about potential topics. When you are picking your individuals you want to choose someone that interests you. I can no stress this enough, because not only are you writing a personal paper
- But you are also giving a presentation through photographs and artwork etc. that are relevant this person’s life So choose someone you love now, or think that you will go to love
- So now we are going to complete Posted example …
- - Just as a reminder these are the relevant time periods
- So where would you start your research process?
- - You are probably asking but why Wikipedia? I’ve been told by all my teachers that I cannot use Wikipedia. And your teachers are right, you can’t use wikipedia in a paper as a cited source.
- Instead Overview with subtopics allows you to be made aware of major events, people, concepts that will help you build a mental map Provides you with search terms that we can then use in the library catalog and electronic databases to search more precisely for information All claims on Wikipedia need to be back up with origin information – this is a great way to find original sources – of course you then need to check these resources for credibility Allows you a general insight into various topics Over all, Wikipedia is a great resource for brainstorming
- But we do not use it as a source for a research paper Why?
- Why don’t we First off, as 10th graders you are not allowed to cite encyclopedias in your papers anymore, and since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia you cannot use it Secondly, the content is user produced and edited, that means it is no peer-reviewed by individuals who you know their credentials, unlike if a URI professor wrote an article for a World Book While Wikipedia is good at spotting vandalism it still occurs People editing can try to use Wikipedia as a soap-box for advertisement and/or bias Page are updated daily and that means that information is not constant
- And just to re-affirm this belief that Wikipedia should not be used as a citation So our purpose for using Wikipedia is to…
- Brainstorm! B/C Wikipedia is a stepping stone and from there you will conduct your research inquiry
- So to do this, I am going to be doing a demonstration of basic search techniques I am going to be using topic ideas that you presented in the padlet
- So just like I demonstrated with searching, I want you to now search your idea listed above in the padlet. Please write out the steps I have shown in this example. I am going to give you all five minutes. If we all seem to complete this early we can move onto our discussion.