LEAD Discover Resources

• Discover Standards - The course standards are centered on the Illinois Social Studies Inquiry Standards. You can get full details here.

  • Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries

  • Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence

  • Communicating Conclusions and Taking Informed Action

• Discover Standard Rubrics - These are the higher-level rubrics that help to evaluate student learning throughout the year. They often get broken down for specific assignments to show a clearer connection.

• Essential Question Rubric - A fancy way to evaluate your essential questions.

• Essential Question Checklist - A quick way for you to review your own questions or as a reminder of what you are trying to accomplish by writing the question.

Canvas Outage Resources

• Daily Slides

• Mapping Problems to Action - if you never opened the Canvas assignment, you can make a copy of the original. If you opened the assignment, you should be able to find your copy in your Google Drive.

  • • Select your article if you haven't already. Not sure? Check here.

SDG Resources

News

The Smiley Movement

The Smiley Movement believes in the power of hope and the strength of optimism.  Their mission is simple yet powerful: Creativity for the Greater Good - inspiring positive change in society by shining a spotlight on the people and organisations making a real difference in our world. The do this by delivering news with a difference: every article, every video, every piece of content to create a positive impact, whether that’s through encouraging donations and volunteering, or simply raising the public profile of charities doing important work.

As a Community Interest Company (CIC), they have a clear mission:

• To engage the public in charity work.

• To give charities a platform.

• To challenge the bad news bias.

• To inspire people to work for positive change.

In addition, they align their articles with the SDGs by tagging the relevant ones.