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TIPS III For Social Studies
Working Agenda

Week Seven
March 12, 2002

Things to Remember

• Next week is Spring Break and we will not meet.  Enjoy your time off!

• Goal: Try to finish your lesson this week or next and start a new lesson!

Activities

• Framing Essential Questions

  • Module Maker
    http://questioning.org/module/module.html

  • A Questioning Toolkit
    http://fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html

  • The Question is the Answer
    http://fno.org/oct97/question.html

  • Scaffolding for Success
    http://fno.org/dec99/scaffold.html

  • What is Project Based Learning
    http://4teachers.org/projectbased/

• Use online tools to create your webquest, create a quiz or rubric to evaluate.  Consider using NoteStar's digital notes and Project Posters as a tools for your students to organize their research and information and communicate their findings.

  • Use TrackStar to put your Webquest online
    http://trackstar.hprtec.org/

  • Use RubiStar to create an evaluation rubric
    http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

  • Use QuizStar to make a Quiz for evaluation
    http://quiz.4teachers.org/index.php3

  • Look at NoteStar  for managing student projects
    http://notestar.4teachers.org/index.php3

  • Consider having students use Project Poster to build a web page to communicate their learning
    http://products.hprtec.org/poster/

• Hotlists

  • Government Agencies

  • Julius Caesar

  • Vietnam

  • Mrs. Newmark's Page of American History and Other Cool Stuff

7:00-7:30 p.m.

• Presentations

Developed by Dr. Jeri A. Carroll and Tonya L. Witherspoon
March, 2002