by Beth Montgomery An article in the October 13, 2012 edition of the Economist Magazine addressed bias in textbooks (Economist.com/print). It Ain’t Necessarily So raised an interesting reason to teach with primary and secondary documents: …
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Teachers ask us all the time, “how can we teach writing and still make sure that students know about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War? We have standards to cover!” The extent to which a…
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Should Your Town Ban the Sale of Plastic Water Bottles? is a great first unit to try in an elementary classroom. This interdisciplinary argumentative prompt is a real-world topic and it is accessible…
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I am a recent college graduate who has taken classes that use both print and online tools. With the tech tools that I remember enjoying, I engaged with the material more deeply than I did…
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Capistrano Unified School District has had a relationship with The DBQ Project for the past ten years. With the adoption of the Common Core and the C3 Framework, Social Studies Supervisor Nina Glassen and the…
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The DBQ Online platform includes a feature that allows teachers to view and provide feedback on student work. Teachers can write comments for students on a sticky note like this! How does it really work?…
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The DBQ Project recently attended the 98th NCSS Annual Conference. Held in Chicago, more than 4,200 attendees and 190 exhibitors were there from across the country. We enjoy attending NCSS each year and were grateful for…
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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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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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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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