6.S.1 - develop skills of critical thinking and creative thinking:
- assess significant local and current affairs from a variety of sources, with a focus on examining bias and distinguishing fact from opinion
- critically evaluate ideas, information and positions
- re-evaluate personal opinions to broaden understanding of a topic or an issue
- generate original ideas and strategies in individual and group activities
seek responses to inquiries from various authorities through electronic media
6.S.2 - develop skills of historical thinking:
- use primary sources to interpret historical events and issues
- use historical and community resources to understand and organize the sequence of historical events
- explain the historical contexts of key events of a given time period
- use examples of events to describe cause and effect and change over time
6.S.4 - demonstrate skills of decision making and problem solving:
- propose and apply new ideas, strategies and options, supported with facts and reasons, to contribute to decision making and problem solving
- consider multiple perspectives when dealing with issues, decision making and problem solving
6. S.7 - apply the research process:
- determine reliability of information filtering for point of view and bias
- formulate questions to be answered through the research process
- draw and support conclusions based on information gathered to answer a research question
- include references in an organized manner as part of research
- formulate new questions as research progresses
access and retrieve appropriate information from the Internet by using a specific search path or from given uniform resource locators (URLs)
use a variety of technologies to organize and synthesize researched information
reflect on and describe the processes involved in completing a project
6.S.8 - demonstrate skills of oral, written and visual literacy:
- express opinions and present perspectives and information in a variety of forms such as oral or written presentations, speeches or debates
- express reasons for their ideas and opinions, in oral or written form
- listen to others to understand their perspectives
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