Gathering, Interpreting, and Using Evidence
What we are trying to accomplish in this lesson:
Define and frame questions about the United States that can be answered by gathering, interpreting, and using evidence.
Identify, select, and evaluate evidence about events from diverse sources (written documents, works of art, photographs, charts and data, artifacts, oral traditions, and other primary and secondary sources).
Analyze evidence in terms of historical context, content, authorship, point of view, purpose and format, identify bias, and explain the role of bias and audience in presenting evidence based arguments.
Describe and analyze arguments of others, with support.
Make inferences and draw general conclusions from evidence.
Recognize, augment, and identify supporting evidence related to a specific social studies topic. Examine arguments related to a specific topic from multiple perspectives. Recognize that the perspective of the arguments author shapes the selection of evidence used to support it.
