
Teaching WWI with Nora Schaffer (Teacher’s Corner Episode)
Conversations in World History
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How to Assess World War I Students
I'm almost certain I just gave a really standard multiple choice or an answer test. And especially these days and times of COVID, I find. I would love to do sort of more authentic project-based assessments with this. Since you use these Nikki and Willie telegraphs, it sounds like you would be fascinating to have them create a series of telegraph communication. So building on the types of sources that you use, have them. Also since you also want to get into the human choices and the way humans are experiencing this, have students from different countries, different types of experiences sending telegraphs back and forth could be really fun.
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