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Launch
Students will launch the inquiry by testing sample claims, learning how to set up an investigation notebook, generating and refining a self-selected mini-investigation question, and using early feedback from peers and an investigative journalist to strengthen how they track evidence and judge trustworthiness.
Days 1 - 5
🧭 Truth Sort Claim Challenge
Launch 60m
🗂️ Investigation Notebook Setup
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
❓ Mini Investigation Question Forge
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🔎 Evidence Trail Mini Inquiry
Project Work 60m
📰 Journalist Claim Check Conference
Assessment 60m
Launch Investigation
Students will investigate a puzzling election-related claim, refine a self-generated question, draft a tentative hypothesis, and build an initial source plan that names how they will trace evidence and sort fact, opinion, reasoned judgment, and speculation before moving into fuller research.
Days 6 - 13
🗳️ Election Claim Sorting Sprint
Launch 60m
🧭 Investigation Notebook Setup
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🧠 Fact Opinion Judgment Mini-Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
❓ Question Funnel for Truth Tests
Project Work 60m
🗣️ Question Gallery Walk Feedback
Deliverable 60m
📚 Source Trail Starter Search
Research 60m
📝 Hypothesis and Source Plan Draft
Deliverable 60m
🎙️ Journalist Claim Check Conference
Assessment 60m
Plan Evidence Methods
Students will finalize how they will test claims before collecting more evidence by building traceable investigation notebooks, agreeing on source-tracing and fact-checking routines, peer-reviewing their methods, and revising their plans after feedback from classmates and an investigative journalist.
Days 14 - 21
🗂️ Investigation Notebook Architecture
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🧭 Source Trail and SIFT Routine
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🧪 Method Menu for Truth Tests
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
📝 Method Blueprint Draft
Deliverable 60m
🔄 Blueprint Feedback Carousel
Project Work 60m
📰 Journalist Claim Check Clinic
Community Experience 60m
🛠️ Notebook and Method Revision Lab
Project Work 60m
✅ Truth-Test Method Gate
Assessment 60m
Collect Source Records
Students will gather, trace, and record source evidence for their investigation questions, test the credibility of claims across election messaging, The Crucible, and buffalo history, and improve their evidence trails through peer critique and an investigative journalist check-in before moving into deeper analysis.
Days 22 - 29
🧭 Evidence Trail Reset
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🗂️ Source Log Build
Research 60m
🗣️ Rhetoric Markup Practice
Knowledge/Skill Building 55m
🔍 Claim Check Work Time
Project Work 60m
👥 Notebook Gallery Critique
Deliverable 55m
🎙️ Journalist Evidence Clinic
Community Experience 60m
📊 Midpoint Source Audit
Assessment 70m
🛠️ Gap-Fill Source Sprint
Project Work 55m
Analyze Patterns Findings
Students will organize their collected evidence into usable categories, turn source records into visual patterns, test competing interpretations through structured discussion, and strengthen their claims by revising with peer and expert feedback. They will track contradictions, anomalies, and limitations in their notebooks so their final conclusions are more precise, better supported, and more honest about uncertainty.
Days 30 - 36
🗂️ Claim Chart Pattern Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
📊 Evidence Trail Visuals
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🧠 Rhetoric Across Cases Seminar
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
📝 Interpretation Claim Draft
Deliverable 60m
🗣️ Evidence Review Gallery Walk
Project Work 60m
🎙️ Journalist Claim Check
Community Experience 60m
✅ Revised Findings Conference
Assessment 60m
Present Evidence Conclusions
Students will finalize warranted conclusions from their investigations, name limits and uncertainties honestly, and turn their evidence trails into audience-ready awareness materials. They will test clarity and credibility through peer critique, a journalist check-in, and a cross-grade evidence review before completing a gallery-style draft showcase that prepares them for the public exhibition.
Days 37 - 43
🧭 Conclusion and Limitation Mini-Lesson
Knowledge/Skill Building 50m
🗂️ Source Trail Boards
Project Work 60m
🎯 Awareness Campaign Drafts
Deliverable 60m
🗣️ Two-Peer Gallery Critique
Deliverable 60m
📰 Journalist Claim Check
Community Experience 60m
🏛️ Government Class Evidence Exchange
Community Experience 70m
📌 Draft Showcase and Defense
Assessment 60m
Showcase
Students will present their final truth-testing work to authentic audiences, respond to critique in real time, make last-mile revisions to their evidence trail and presentation choices, and reflect on how their claims, source judgments, and collaboration changed across the investigation.
Days 44 - 48
🧭 Exhibition Route and Speaker Cards
Deliverable 50m
🎤 Journalist Claim Check
Community Experience 60m
🤝 Cross-Grade Evidence Review
Community Experience 60m
🏛️ Knowledge Forum Exhibition Night
Assessment 70m
📝 Claim Change Reflection Log
Deliverable 50m