Teachers Discovering History As Historians

DBQ's and Other Essays

Exceptional DBQ Site from the Upstate from the Upstate History Alliance

Stop here for the most comprehensive site for DBQ's.  Extensive material including General Resources, Resources for Teachers and Students, Online Projects, Document Based Lessons and other related links.

http://www.upstatehistory.org/services/DHP/DBQ.html

 

NYS Education Department Guidelines for DBQ's

This site offers two comprehensive "courses or repositories of information regarding document based questions. Course I is a general introduction to historical records and DBQ's.  Course II enables the teacher to

• understand how document-based questions assess standards and performance indicators in the Learning Standards for Social Studies.
• gain knowledge of strategies for preparing students to write strong responses to DBQ’s
• comprehend processes and procedures for creating effective DBQ assessments
• understand processes and procedures for rating Regents DBQ essays

http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/dbq/ssindex.html

 

Course I

 

Course II

 

Using Primary Sources on the Web

 

An exceptional site explaining for teachers, students and parents:  What are primary sources?, Finding Primary Sources on the Web, Evaluating Primary Sources on the Web and Citing Primary Sources.

http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/History/RUSA/

 

 

        U.S. History and Government Regents Essays and DBQ's (2001-2002)

 

Another exceptional site from Edusolutions.

http://www.edusolution.com/regentsexams/dbqsindex.htm

 

Document Based Questions and Local History

The Living Schoolbook Local History site provides an interesting database  teaching resource designed to provide practitioners with a venue for collecting and sharing local history documents and related questions for student investigations.  The link provided will enable you to access some DBQ with documents.  This first group of materials seems very appropriate for Elementary level students but might be tailored for multiple grade use. I have linked to the old site because I find the design more immediately user friendly.

http://lsb.syr.edu/projects/localhistory/DBQIndex.php3?page=1

DBQ and CRQ Recommended Guidelines

ELEMENTARY TEST PREP Center:  Grades 4 and 5

 

An extraordinary site created by the Oswego School district.  Provides lessons, review materials, interactive games, teacher resources, CRQ's

          Visit all three locations.

 

http://www.oswego.org/testprep/ss4.cfm

     

Practice Thematic and DBQ's for the Regents Exam

 

Teaching With Documents by Peter Pappas

 

This site is designed to assist teachers in making the transition to skills-based standards and assessments by using "The Learning Page" from the Library of Congress and "The Digital Classroom" from the National Archives.  Contains worksheets and links to sources.  Geared for elementary grades, K-6.  Be sure and visit the section Document Based Questions  Note the 15 sample DBQ's for all grades and tutorials for teachers designing their own DBQs.

 

http://www.edteck.com/dbq/

 

History Matters:  Many Pasts

 

Access to over 900 primary documents in text, image and audio emphasizing the experiences of ordinary Americans.

 

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/manypasts/

 

Primary Source Materials and Document Based Questions

 

A comprehensive and well designed site created by Paula Goldstein at Nassau BOCES.  Provides an incredible number of links to Primary Source Materials, Document Based Questions, Assessments, General Resources and Constructed Response Questions.  Highly Recommended.

 

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html

 

Teaching and Learning with Historical Documents

 

An internet hotlist created my Elaine Casler of the Center for Applied Technologies in Education at the University at Buffalo.  Numerous topics related to the use of historical documents in the classroom including General History Resources, Primary Source Locations (pictures, postcards, letters, maps and much more) and other highly recommended sites

 

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listsocialsca.html

 

DBQ's and Primary Sources

 

Links to DBQ information and primary source documents repositories.

 

http://www.lawrence.org/edlinks/dbq/dbq.htm

 

New York State Historical Association

 

New York State Historical Associations Yorkers page.  Sample DBQ's designed for 4^th and 5^th graders.

The following document-based questions are available for download as PDF files (important information about using PDF files)

• The Late 1800s Farm Family and the Economy in New York State
• Discovering Government Records
• Dairy Farming: A Growing Industry
• The Impact of Railroads on New York State in the 1800s
• http://www.yorkers.org/dbq.htm

 

United States History DBQ's

 

Information, Hints, Samples and many external links for teachers and students.

 

http://www.upstatehistory.org/services/DHP/DBQ.html

 

 

 

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