Global Education Guide

-Believe it or not, throughout our project based learning adventure, one of the biggest challenges for my students (8th graders) is to create good questions.

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-My advice to teachers is that whatever works for you and your students (inquiry based approaches; good, old-fashioned thesis statement writing; searching online for exemplars of well written probing questions)  - just keep doing it and practice, practice, practice.

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-One thing I remind my students of is to always be asking themselves, "What am I trying to PROVE?"

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-At this point in the process of preparing students to jump into their own research, it is helpful to remind them of the four C3 lenses.  Ask students to think about how to be a historical detective, how to analyze information like an economist, how to discern the geographic surroundings of their chosen topic, and how to get to the bottom of a perplexing civics issue. (Note: Over the past few years of having students do these projects, the CIVICS part is the toughest for them to grasp and apply to their research.  They have trouble seeing how civics applies to every day topics.  I remind them that civics is really about rules and regulations, not just government.)