Transcript Document-Based Questions (DBQ)

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Document-Based
Questions (DBQ)
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Objectives
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Discuss strategies for assessing students using social studies
content and reading/writing skills.
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Analyze several primary source documents to respond to a
question.
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Review examples of document based questions that integrate
primary sources.
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Agenda
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Assessment and inquiry in Social Studies
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What is a document based question?
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Experiencing a document based question
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Examples for your grade level
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Assessments in Social Studies
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On three sticky notes, write down three ways you assess
students knowledge and skills in social studies.
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In a group of four, sort all of your responses into groups.
Label the group with a name.
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Inquiry and Assessment
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How do the assessments we currently use match the inquiry
process?
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What is a DBQ Question?
The DBQ will consist of two parts.
First Part:
In the first part, students will be required to answer a key
question(s) on each document. This generally involves
interpreting the main idea or point of view expressed in the
document. This section will be "scaffolded" to the second
part in which the student will write an essay using the
documents to respond to a specific question.
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What is a DBQ Question?
Second Part:
In this second part, students are asked to utilize all the sources,
plus their understanding of science to respond to a
question. This second part will require them to move
beyond simply quoting all the documents. They will need to
use the documents as evidence in support of a thesis that
responds to the assigned (part two) question. The student
will be required to use all documents and incorporate
outside information.
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Sample Documents
Snow Depth from January 26th-31st
January 26th
January 31st
Document 3
Document 3
Mealworm Fried Rice
Ingredients:
1 egg, beaten
1 tsp. oil
Mealworm Fried Rice
To double the recipe, how many onions
would you need?
3/4 c. water
1/4 c. chopped onions
4 tsp. soy sauce
1/8 tsp. garlic powder
1 c. minute rice
1 c. cooked mealworms
From the recipe, how long does the rice
need to cook?
Directions:
Scramble egg in a saucepan, stirring to break egg into pieces.
Add water, soy sauce, garlic and onions. Bring to a boil.
Stir in rice. Cover; remove from heat and let stand five minutes.
Serves 4 people.
Mealworms are invertebrates, animals
without backbones. Name 2
invertebrates that you may have eaten?
Describe how they tasted.
Document 2
Notice how solid water molecules are
bunched together and how far apart the
gas molecules are.
From the diagram above, explain what
causes solid water molecules to bunch
together and gas molecules to move more
freely.
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Beside water, give an example of a solid,
liquid and gas.
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Document 3
Photosynthesis and transpiration (made easy)
Photosynthesis is the way a plant makes food for itself.
Chlorophyll in the "green" part of the leaves captures
energy from the sun and this powers the building of food
from very simple ingredients - carbon dioxide and water.
Oxygen is released as a by-product of photosynthesis.
Trees "breathe in" carbon dioxide and "breathe out"
oxygen. They breathe through tiny holes in their leaves
called stomata; they also lose water through the stomata.
The tree draws up water through its roots and the water is
then drawn up through the tree and comes out through the
stomata in its leaves. The whole process of sucking up
water and losing it again is called transpiration.
It's simple really, they just use long complicated words to
describe it!
1. What is photosynthesis?
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2. What “ingredients” are needed for plants
to make their own food?
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3. Trees “breathe in” carbon dioxide and
“breathe out” oxygen through tiny holes in
their leaves called
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4. Plants transpire. How are humans similar to
plants?
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Document-based Essay Question
(DBQ) SKILLS NEEDED:
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Read, interpret, analyze, synthesize, comprehension, observe, prior knowledge
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Read and interpret and analyze different types of documents (posters, newspaper articles, letters, advertisements, flyers, graphs, diagrams)
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Write an essay with topic sentence, supporting details, conclusion based on documents and notes
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Reading and Writing Skills - essay, note taking, outlining, webbing, editing, and final copy work
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Vocabulary
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Critical Thinking
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Scientific Knowledge base
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Inquiry –Based Skills
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Listening and following directions
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Finding main ideas and giving examples to support your main idea conclusions
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Organize their response in a logical way
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Recognize and relate to different perspective
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Read and discuss content material, and formulate pertinent questions
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Read a timeline, chart, map, or caption to illustration
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Reading skills i.e. decoding, literal and inferential details/comprehension, cause/effect
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Locate relevant information (key words) , analyze and interpret data with or without scaffolding, identify and apply problem solving strategies
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Compare/contrast data
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Math skills e.g. number value, greater than/less than, equal, percentage, estimation
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Summarizing
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Raising Standards with DBQs
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As early as third grade, students are tested
on their ability to analyze a collection of
documents, tap their own knowledge and
come up with reasoned answers to complex
questions on multi-faceted topics. It's a
real-world skill they'll use all their lives.
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Unfortunately, kids fall short on DBQs - and
other tests, for that matter - because they
don't focus on the details or the directions.
Through DBQ assessments we are
developing their powers of observation.