Extension Project

Name(s):

Class:

Date due:

Assignment:

  1. Choose one of the questions (or clusters of related questions) included in a Detail of one of the Gettysburg by the Numbers Topics. Write/type your chosen question(s) here:
  2. Choose a product or way to present your response to the question from this list or ask permission for another idea you might have:

blog post, wiki page, video “news feature,” article or paragraph (must include evidence to support opinions or hypotheses), infographic (includes data) with explanation, illustration with explanation, slide presentation, podcast, script, performance or skit, interactive (online) book, poster (electronic or paper), whiteboard presentation, animation, map, timeline, cartoon/comic, other

  1. Carefully review the rubric for this project so you know what is reuired.
  2. Where applicable, use recommended resources from Gettysburg by the Numbers: The Big Picture as a place to begin searching for answers. These resources do not have information about other wars and modern day topics, however, so you will have to search elsewhere.
  3. Talk about where you might find the information you need. Write down the questions and search terms you start with (what did you enter into Google?).
  4. Write down the search terms and sources where you actually FIND the information you need.
  5. Create your finished project and share it with your class electronically or as an actual presentation or display on (date). Be sure to include a complete record of ALL the sources you used (Title, author or creator, url). If you use any images or files from online sources, you MUST include the source and url of EACH one. If you copy images from books or magazines, you must include bibliography information for each.
  6. Write down the other questions you wonder about after finding out about this question.
  7. Include a Process Record (such as the back of this sheet) when you turn in your project.

Process record


Use this side of the sheet or an electronic file to record search terms, sources, questions, etc. as you work.

(for #5) Possible places to find what I need, possible search terms:

(for #6) The search terms and sources where I found what I need:

(for #7): List of ALL the sources and images I used: (title, author or creator, url). Make sure you know which one foes with which image!

(for #8): Now I wonder…

(Write down further questions that you wonder about after finding out about this one):

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