The DBQ Project

1. DBQ Online turns The DBQ Project curriculum into an interactive digital format.
   
2. Teachers and students have the tools to read and annotate documents, take notes, organize evidence, and write papers in our online environment.
   
3. Audio support and Spanish translation provide extra support and scaffolding to meet the needs of all learners.
4. Our Essay Builder feature guides students through a multi-step process for planning and writing.
5. Includes access to our online professional development library that provides teachers with strategies for how to implement and teach the 6-step method.

Your Spanish-speaking and dual language students will greatly benefit from our new Spanish version Mini-Qs. Students can either complete the lesson entirely in Spanish, or they can toggle between Spanish and English versions.

1. Monitor What Your Students are Doing

With DBQ Online, you can view and comment on students’ work anytime. All of the work your students complete saves automatically. This is great for students because they won’t lose their work, and it’s great for you because you’ll always be able to see their latest annotations, document analysis sheets, essays, and more.

2. Differentiate Assignments for Every Student

You might find that some students might be grasping DBQs quickly, while others might need more scaffolding. To provide different versions for different students, once you’re done creating an assignment, select “Yes” on Specify Students Who Receive the Assignment. Here, you’ll be able to select which students receive this version.

3. Teach Vocabulary with Ease

The bolded vocabulary terms in our Background Essays can be clicked to reveal a short definition of the term. Since DBQ Online is a web-based platform, students can also highlight and Right-Click any word on any page and select “Search Google for __”.

4. Play Audio Read-Alouds

One of our teachers’ favorite features! For all of our Background Essays and Documents with heavy text, there is an “Audio Read-Aloud” option. For many of our primary source documents, we hired voice actors to bring these documents to life. Audio read-aloud is also available in Spanish.

5. Highlight Essays and Documents

With DBQ Online, you can highlight the text in different colors! Teachers and students can use the freehand draw tool or the underline tool to mark up Documents or the Background Essay. With nine different colors to choose from, students can highlight thematically for pros and cons; social, political, and economic factors; setting, characterization, and plot; or whatever!

6. Expand Maps and Pictures with a Click

Do you ever look at a map on the page and think, “Why is that font so small?” With DBQ Online, every map and image can be expanded to a full-screen view. Goodbye, eye strains; hello, color images and readable fonts. What’s more, your students can circle, draw arrows and lines, or block parts of an image using our shape annotation tools. Similar to the highlighting tool, they can also color-code these annotation tools to match their buckets.

7. Preload Instructions

Instructor Markup- Previously, to share your annotations and instructions with the class, you might have had to share your screen through the class projector. Now, using all of the above annotation tools, you can prep students’ assignments with instructions before you even send them their way. BONUS - you can even add voice directions! When your students open their assignments, they’ll see a sticky note right by their document with the instructions you’ve attached.

To improve close reading, students and teachers can annotate their pages, using color-coded:

• text
• sticky notes
• highlighters
• arrows, squares, circles, etc

• collect and organize evidence
• develop their claims
• outline their argument
• flesh out each paragraph
• revise their essay

Imali grew up in Livonia, Michigan. After graduating from Eastern Michigan University, she spent the next 8 years teaching 5th grade in Pasco County and Lake County, FL. In Lake County, Imali also served as a DBQ coach helping new teachers implement the DBQ process in their classrooms. In 2013, Imali was named Lake County Social Studies Teacher of the Year and received The Excellence in Teaching History Award by The Florida Council of Social Studies. Imali joined The DBQ Project in 2015.

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