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=**Enrich Social Studies Exit Project with Technology**= //Grade 8 Sample Unit//




 * Digital Social Studies Exit Project Samples**

= **Class Components** = **Session 1 – Overview of the 8th Grade Social Studies Exit Project **

** Author(s): ** NYC Department of Education and Teaching Matters
 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn the components of the Grade 8 Exit Project and how to utilize the “Grade 8 Exit Project Instructional Guide” to guide our students through the Exit Project process.
 * Technology Teaching Points: Participants will explore the ways in which can technology be integrated into the framework of the exit project. Participants will review available Exit Project resources found on the web.

[|PDF Download: Grade 8 Exit Project Instructional Guide] [|Sample Student Exit Project] [|PDF Download]: Exit Project Resources (from the Guide): Rubrics for Written, Graphic, and Oral components, plus Project Timeline and Checklist.
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** Author(s): ** NYC Department of Education and Teaching Matters
 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to use Inspiration to brainstorm a research question.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to use Inspiration to organize the research process for the Exit Project.

Sample Web Inspiration: Sample Web WORD: Sample Web RTF: [|PDF Download: Grade 8 Exit Project Instructional Guide]
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** Author(s) **** : ** NYC Department of Education and Teaching Matters
 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how TrackStar can be customized by the teacher to help students focus on select Web sites for their Exit Project research.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn what TrackStar is and why is it an important resource for student research.

[|TrackStar] [|Track # 305538: 8th Grade Exit Project-The Civil Rights Movement]
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** Author(s) **** : ** NYC Department of Education and Teaching Matters
 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn ways in which you can use research topic/question to effectively search the Internet for information and how to evaluate whether or not the information found is accurate.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to cite Internet sources correctly.

[|Cyberbee] [|Citation Machine]
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** Author(s) **** : ** NYC Department of Education and Teaching Matters
 * Content Teaching Points: Participants will learn what a blog is and will be introduced to the process of creating a teacher blog for this project. Participants will post general information about their Exit Project.
 * Technology Teaching Points: Participants will create a blog and use it to post project information and research questions for the exit project.

[|Sample Civil Rights Movement Blog - Exit Project Blog]
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** Author(s): ** NYC Department of Education and Teaching Matters >
 * Content Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to use a blog to foster critical thinking.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to add social studies content to a blog.

[|Sample Civil Rights Movement Blog - Exit Project Blog] [|Edublogs] [|FreeVlog Tutorial]
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** Author(s) **** : ** NYC Department of Education and Teaching Matters
 * Content Teaching Points: Participants will be introduced to Bloglines, an online website that organizes blog postings. Participants will learn how Bloglines can serve as an informal way to collect posts from student-created blogs, thus creating an informal electronic portfolio to accompany the Exit Project.
 * Technology Teaching Points: During this session, participants will learn how to we set up student blogs for use as electronic portfolios and how to manage students’ blogs/electronic portfolios.

[|Sample Civil Rights Movement Blog - Exit Project Blog] [|Blogger] [|Bloglines]
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** Author(s) ** NYC Department of Education and Teaching Matters
 * Content Teaching Points: Participants will explore strategies for preparing a model exit project using the skills and resources introduced in Sessions 1-7.
 * Technology Teaching Points: Participants will review the use of TrackStar, Inspiration, blog-related websites, and the Internet and apply those skills to the exit project.


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//**Facilitator Notes:** You are encouraged to customize the materials to your teaching style. Please add your own contact information in the last slide of your PowerPoints before presenting.//