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Where Do I begin with DBQ Project?
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DBQ PRoject in the JCPS Curriculum
DBQ is Embeded in the Living Democracy Curriculum
DBQ Project Alignment to Disciplinary Standards KAS for Social Studies
Note: These resources are embedded in the Curriculum for each grade level where appropriate.
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How to get started in DBQ Project
Watch DBQ Online Jumpstart to learn how to add a class, add an assignment, and enroll your students. The videos below go into greater details.
DBQ Project 7-Step Method
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Aligning the Instructional Framework to 7 Step Method
How to Teach a DBQ Project Lesson: the 7-Step Method
Hook Exercise
1. Hook Exercise Overview: Learn how to engage and orients students to the question.
The Background Essay
2. Background Overview: Learn how to provide essential context for the inquiry. Below are videos diving deeper into the the Background essay that work well with ALM strategies.
Understanding the Question: Pre-Bucketing
3. Pre-Bucketing Overview: Learn how to help students activate prior knowledge and set up categories to better understand the question.
Document Analysis
Learn how to analyzing, challenge, and evaluate sources.
Bucketing
5. Bucketing Overview: Learn how to categorize and synthesize interpretations. The video below goes deeper into the strategy.
Writing: The Thrash Out
6. Thrash-Out Overview: Learn how to collaborate and communicate ideas, interpretations, while addressing lingering questions.
Writing: 0utline to Essay
7. Writing-Outline to Essay Overview: Learn how to construct a well-reasoned argument. The following videos diver deeper into how to construct and refine writing.
