George Washington Intro to Research Project

Your Information Problem: What made George Washington a great leader?

Websites about George Washington

Databases (and Keywords to Use When Searching Them)
Biography of George Washington (The White House)

Database Article #1
Gale History Resource Center: Advanced Search on keywords "George Washington" and "leadership". Click on the Biography tab and locate George Washington in the list of results. Open the second article and scan 2/3 of the way down for this sentence: "George Washington remains one of the true giants of modern history." Read from there through to the end of the article.
Biography of George Washington (Colonial Williamsburg) Database Article #2
Gale History Resource Center: Advanced Search on keywords "George Washington" and "leadership". Click on the Maps & Multimedia tab and locate "America's Original CEO President" in the list of results.
George Washington Biography (From Revolution to Reconstruction) World Book Online: Keyword search on "George Washington". Click through each subsection of the George Washington article.
George Washington, Genius in Leadership (The Papers of George Washington)  
Learning from George Washington's Leadership (BusinessWeek)  
George Washington on Leadership (The Presidential Expert)  

 

Minimum Source Requirements:

  • 2 articles from a database (Hint: use Gale History Resource Center)

  • 2 websites (Wikipedia can NOT be used as one of the websites for which you turn in notes; use it as a starting point instead)

  • 1 World Book Encylopedia article

Use a separate GRAPHIC ORGANIZER for each source!

Here is the GRADING RUBRIC.

 

Updated 9/24/08