Using Features of DBQ Online to Analyze Documents
Here at The DBQ Project, we love that DBQ Online has taken off in many districts. Many teachers have shared their strategies on using the platform, and their main message to us, and one we…
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Why Elementary Teachers Should Teach with DBQs
When we began writing our first DBQs in the late 1990s, the goal was to create units that were accessible to a broad range of high school students. In the early 2000s, with the writing…
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Congrats to Aiken County Schools: DBQ Online Raises Social Studies Scores by 9.6%!
In 2017-2018, the first year that DBQ Online was implemented, Aiken County’s 7th grade SCPASS (South Carolina’s Palmetto Assessment of State Standards) scores increased from 57.1% passing to 66.7% passing. That is a 9.6% increase! According…
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DBQ Online wins 2 prestigious learning awards at EdTech in Las Vegas!
DevLearn Hyperdrive Competition: Each of the 12 participants have 8 mins to present their learning tool and are graded on a rubric by 4 learning peers who evaluate the challenge, obstacles, benefits, reach and outcomes. The…
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DBQ Shout Out – Jake Wager, Des Moines PS
Why Jake loves DBQ… I have been using The DBQ Project in my middle school classroom for over six years. My students at McCombs are incredible, and each year I get better at teaching DBQ….
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A Teacher’s Thoughts on Using DBQ Online
Thinking about switching from print to DBQ Online? Listen to Brian Stottlemyer, a teacher from Washington County, MD speak about his experience transitioning last year.
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DBQ Project Shout Out
Listen to Shaquila talk about her experiences teaching DBQs! Then, check out our blog to learn more about what is happening across the country with DBQs.
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Even in High School, They Grow with DBQ
By Tom O’Hara, teacher, West High School, Tracy USD I teach US History to 11th graders, and I’ve been teaching for 28 years in a school which has a large percentage of students who live in…
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More DBQs Have Improved Our Scores
Social Studies and World Languages Support Specialist Higley Unified School District, Arizona In Higley Unified School Distirct, we administer a pretest in the first week of school for (9-12). It is a reading test, but…
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Getting the Argument in Writing
Monet Webster, 6th grade teacher, Belleville, IL Yesterday I came back to my class and implemented the Guided Essay on the Free Blacks in the North DBQ. It went PHENOMENALLY!!! The students were so…
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