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Learning Goals & Products

Learning Goals

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Students will be able to analyze cause-and-effect connections among Renaissance ideas, exploration technologies, Reformation conflicts, and changes in beliefs, daily life, and political power

2

Students will be able to evaluate how trade, resource competition, economic interdependence, and forced and voluntary migration during European exploration transformed societies and Indigenous ways of life

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Students will be able to determine the credibility of primary, secondary, and peer arguments about the Renaissance, Age of Exploration, and Reformation by examining sourcing, evidence, perspective, and corroboration

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Students will be able to construct and defend an evidence-based answer to how the Renaissance, Age of Exploration, and Reformation together reshaped lives, beliefs, and power using claims, warrants, counterarguments, and evidence from all three periods

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Students will be able to revise historical arguments and collaborative decisions using peer, teacher, community-partner, and self-reflection feedback

Products

individual

Three Eras Historical Argument Dossier

Each student independently completes a structured evidence log, source-credibility checks, a cause-and-effect timeline, and a CER argument answering the essential question with evidence from all three periods. The dossier includes economic and migration impacts, a fair counterargument and rebuttal, citations, and a project-journal reflection on feedback and collaboration.

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Crossroads of Change Argument Exhibit and Public Defense

Teams synthesize members' individual research into a linked tri-fold board or slideshow and orally defend their answer at the Crossroads of Change Celebration. Each exhibit must compare perspectives, trace connections across all three periods, identify global consequences, and incorporate revisions recommended by visiting high school history teachers.

Student choices
Tri-Fold Argument Exhibit — Create a physical tri-fold board with linked period sections, a cause-and-effect timeline, cited evidence, a counterargument and rebuttal, and visuals that support the team's claim.
Argument Slideshow — Create a digital slideshow with linked period sections, a cause-and-effect timeline, cited evidence, a counterargument and rebuttal, and visuals that support the team's claim.
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