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DBQuest: The Nashville Sit-In Movement InteractiveDBQuest: The Nashville Sit-In Movement Interactive
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iCivics
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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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Interactives
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DBQuest: The Nashville Sit-In Movement

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What was it like to be a part of the sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement? Learners consider the question and whether the protests were effective using an online documents-based investigation. The program allows for virtual navigation of documents and practice for the steps to writing an analytical essay. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources, historical documents, the civil rights movement, civil rights, protests

Additional Tags

social studies

Instructional Ideas

  • Offer as independent exploration of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Use as a scaffolded approach to teaching documents-based questions

Classroom Considerations

  •  Interactive requires a free iCivics account

Pros

  • Virtual tutors are diverse 
  • Inquiry is pupil-driven

Cons

  • Program won't allow learners to exit without getting correct answers, or allow them to progress, but doesn't give helpful hints
  • Interface is slow to respond

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.5 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.7 RH.9-10.8 RH.9-10.9 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.5 RH.11-12.6 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.8 RH.11-12.9 RH.11-12.10

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