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Skills Developed and Learned during the Grandparent/Elder
Project
By Students of The Urban School of San Francisco
The skills listed below include in parenthesis the section or unit where
the skills are learned:
- analyzing information (all);
- annotating (primary source document and encyclopedia
secondary source article);
- asking and answering questions (all);
- building self-confidence (all);
- charting (newspaper exercise);
- close reading of printed material (primary source and research paper
units);
- conducting focused research (modeled and taught in primary source
unit on family life in Great Depression; practiced in history research
paper unit);
- citing sources (all);
- discriminating between primary and secondary sources (newspaper and
primary source unit);
- doing research (introduced in Unit II; developed in history research
paper unit);
- evaluating a source for accuracy, etc. (Unit III);
- doing expository writing (primary source unit
and research paper unit);
- following directions (all);
- organizing information (research paper unit
especially);
- interviewing (unit I);
- making observations (interview and primary
source units);
- note taking (all);
- organizing information in a chronological order and writing a timeline
(Unit III and timeline);
- outlining (research paper unit);
- pacing/organizing and scheduling time for a long-term assignment (research
paper unit);
- preparing a visual aid (oral presentation of research paper);
- preparing and organizing information and materials for oral presentation
(oral presentation of research paper);
- writing a self-assessment (conclusion of research paper unit);
- serving as an advocate (supporter) for another student (oral presentation); and
- writing a bibliography (research paper unit).
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