Passive Secrets Teacher Guide

A detailed student evidence log for the final podcast project, providing sections for analyzing intent, vocal forensics, and bias check.

A guide for the final project where students select a podcast episode, analyze its intent and bias, and present their findings, including a checklist and a performance rubric.

Slides for the final project launch, introducing the media critic mission, criteria for analyzing podcasts, and methods for citing audio evidence.

Answer key for the Rhetorical Anatomy worksheet, providing the subtext and implied meaning for the final project's persuasive speech analysis.

A cumulative exit ticket for the "Search Superstars" sequence, assessing student mastery of keywords, Boolean operators, text features, and database usage.

A teacher guide for the The Final Verdict lesson, providing a simulation setup, a scoring rubric for the assessment, and debrief discussion questions.

Final assessment for the Search Strategy Academy unit, covering keywords, Boolean operators, database use, and snippet analysis.

A rhetorical analysis log for graduate students to deconstruct persuasive speeches by mapping tonal journeys, identifying strategic pauses, and evaluating effectiveness.

Answer key for the Lesson 4 worksheet on grammatical reductions.

A certificate of completion (Digital Detective Badge) for students who have finished the sequence. Features a professional agency-style design with space for student name and date.

A troubleshooting-focused worksheet that presents students with failed search scenarios and requires them to diagnose the error and rewrite the search string using effective strategies.

Teacher facilitation guide for Lesson 2. Includes hook procedures, mechanics checklist, sample answers for the worksheet, and ESL scaffolding tips.

Teacher guide for "The Source Weaver" lesson. It outlines the synthesis process, provides a hook activity, transition words for ESL support, and a sample synthesized paragraph.

Answer key for the Lesson 3 worksheet on assimilation.

Final synthesis worksheet where students act as magazine editors to select the 3 most credible sources from a list of 6 on the topic of Mars exploration. Requires application of currency, authority, and objectivity criteria.

Final project worksheet for Lesson 5 where students read an informational passage about the Great Wall of China and write an original, synthesized summary paragraph with formal attribution.

Student scavenger hunt log for Lesson 5, where students document their search strings and answers to obscure research questions.