Activity 9.4

Step 2: Viewing Sample Project Descriptions and Prompts

 When you create a Showing Evidence project online, you will need to enter a Project Description and Prompt to guide your learners’ work. Use this time to help clarify your project ideas.

Project Description

Just like for the Visual Ranking Tool, the Project Description for Showing Evidence is a focused, short paragraph that describes the project to your learners and explains how they will use the Showing Evidence Tool to help them answer the project’s focus question. The Project Description should be able to convey, in a few sentences, why this is a project or problem that is worthy of study, as well as define what your learners will try to solve, produce, respond to, test, recommend, or find out.

Prompt

In addition to your Project Description, you will need to create a Prompt, which will be the direct question that learners will respond to in their argument case. This question and the resulting investigation will provide a foundation on which learners will build understanding around the complexities of the project or problem.

Click here are a few examples of Learning Objectives, Project Descriptions, and Prompts.

Next: Proceed to Activity 9.5