Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze primary and secondary sources from a local community event to determine how each source contributes evidence about what happened.
Students will be able to investigate a local community event by generating focused questions, gathering evidence from newspapers, yearbooks, photos, and oral-history excerpts, and organizing findings into a simple timeline.
Students will be able to justify a CER-style claim about community change over time using corroborated evidence and historical context.
Products
Local History Investigation Notebook
A research notebook that documents each student's question, source notes, evidence sorting, timeline, and personal analysis of what the sources reveal. It shows individual historical thinking by capturing raw notes, source comparisons, and a revised claim after feedback.
Two-Sided Evidence Poster for the Historic Huddle Walk
A collaborative poster that presents a shared claim about the local event with a source collage, timeline, CER reflection, and brief notes on limitations and conflicting evidence. Teams use it in a studio walk to explain how corroboration and context shaped their conclusion.
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