You'll C-E-R a difference in classroom achievement after using a helpful instructional activity. Designed for economics, civics, government, and US history classes, participants practice using the CER model to craft arguments about...

What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...

Flipped classrooms and online tools killed the chalkboard! An awesome, hands-on technology workshop asks teachers across all content areas. to examine model lessons, become familiar with research, and explore tech tools they can...

Lesson plan designed for eleventh graders. Young scholars analyze and evaluate a short story for elements of literary works such as theme, mood, word choice, imagery, tone, and main idea. Includes a student handout and a scoring guide....

If you're looking for a way to engage students in analyzing and evaluating evidence, rather than simply piling up information, this tool may be a boon. Students can use it to construct an argument, rate the quality of resources, and...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on analyzing and evaluating the value of the sources used for evidence in a research project.

Analyze and annotate a model response focusing on support for a claim. Then revise and edit your work based on the model. This will help you develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.

Questions to ask yourself when determining if a source is reliable. Discusses difference between primary and secondary source. List of reference sources and links to other sites that teach you how to evaluate sources....

This collection, which includes videos, blog articles, student handouts, lesson plans, and tip sheets for families, helps students identify, analyze, and investigate the news and information they get from online sources. Media literacy...

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Identify the role of labor productivity in promoting economic growth, analyze the sources of economic growth using the aggregate production function, measure an economy's...

This multi-session lesson plan features the opportunity to analyze a variety of famous speeches. Students will look carefully at tone, rhetoric, propaganda techniques, and historical context as they write an analysis paper....

[Free Registration/Login Required] Are all historical sources equally trustworthy? How might the reliability of a historical document be affected by the circumstances under which it was created? In this activity, students sharpen their...

In this lesson, students practice analyzing the evidence that supports or opposes an argument. They are also going to learn to analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of the evidence so you can decide whether to accept the...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn to analyze the quality, relevance, and credibility of evidence used to support an argument.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students can practice finding specific types of sources and learn the questions to ask when evaluating information for a persuasive essay.

Young scholars will explore the value of personal stories and first-hand accounts when exploring history, in this case, the events of the early twentieth century, which included World War I and the Great Depression. Through this...

In this activity, 8th graders analyze and compare the propaganda techniques used in informational texts, with a particular focus on the use of testimonials. Includes links to recommended resources, scaffolding suggestions, and an...

The activities in this lesson will help you focus on the important features of arguments, especially on the writer (or the source) and the evidence the writer provides. That way, you can more accurately decide if an argument is valid and...

This report from the Stanford History Education Group describes the conclusions of their work in field testing a set of assessments of civic online reasoning by young people from the middle school to the college level. Middle school...

This activity requires students to examine the arrest record of an un-named person. Students will analyze and evaluate the data contained in the document, applying prior knowledge, to discern what happened in the incident and the...

In this activity, students will examine a diagram of the bus in which Rosa Parks took a seat. Ms. Parks' name has been blacked out. Students will analyze and evaluate the document, then apply prior knowledge to discern what this document...

Data comes to the rescue! Children will collect, analyze, and represent data as they try to dodge a series of catastrophes faced by characters from their favorite PBS Kids shows.

Students will analyze primary source documents related to the National History Day (NHD) theme for 2011-12: Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History, determine how the documents are connected to the theme, and evaluate the effectiveness...

A slideshow with twelve slides about reading or writing an argument, analyzing the claim and looking at how it is supported with observation, evidence, and reasoning.