End-of-Semester Inquiry Project (15% of final grade):

• Essential Question: Why is inquiry important for learning geography?

• Objectives: Students will be able to... create compelling questions representing key ideas within the disciplines; develop supporting questions that contribute to an inquiry and demonstrate how, through engaging source work, new compelling and supporting questions emerge; gather relevant information from multiple sources representing a wide range of views while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection; evaluate the credibility of a source by examining how experts value the source; identify evidence that draws information directly and substantively from multiple sources to detect inconsistencies in evidence in order to revise or strengthen claims; & construct explanations using reasoning, correct sequence, examples, and details with significant and pertinent information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations given their purpose. 

• Agenda:

  • Choose a Contemporary Environmental Issue to Research

  • Inquiry Step 1 - Ask Critical Questions

  • Inquiry Step 2 - Find Credible Sources

  • Inquiry Step 3 - Cite Sources

  • Inquiry Step 4 - Record Information

  • Inquiry Step 5 - Answer Critical Questions

  • Inquiry Step 6 - Draw Conclusions

  • Class Presentations will be given on Final Exam Day

• 50 Multiple Choice Questions! 10% of students' final grade.

• Students will complete this Exam using a scantron that I provide.

• Students will fill out a 3x5" index card front and back with notes that they can use during the Exam.

• Students will not be able to use any notes during the Exam other than what they write on their index card.

• After all students have completed their Exam, students will give 2-4 minute presentations for Step 6 of their Inquiry Project.

• Final Exam Day for 7th period is May 28th.

• Final Exam Day for 1st and 5th periods is May 29th.

• Final Exam Day for 2nd and 4th periods is May 30th.

• Students who miss the Final Exam must email me to let me know what time on May 31st they will come in to make up their Exam.