Terry

Terry's journey...I would like a large project that I could get the students really involved in, maybe a recreation of Pompeii's total destruction. Students could create the streets (small amount of work) before and after. They may have to draw some of the stuff, then the house model assigned to different kids' groups.

Questions that student will generate in laptop mode. I would like to create a historical situation. The student must place themselves back in time and become a member of a society. An example might be the Egyptian boy or girl fishing on the edge of the Nile River and suddenly a band of Hyksos appear on the opposite bank. Students must determine a seris of questions in larger catagories like what location on the Nile what absolute location and then a relative location has this attack happened. Students need to develop who is Pharaoh, what year in the Empire has this come about.

Great ideas. Do you see a way to maybe to incorporate other regional situations at the time into this particular unit such as hypothetical situations or alternate situations. For example, lets say the egyptians had gained military tech from the Assyrians, how could the battle be different. this may allow the students to think outside the box.

Chris

Thanks TP

My unit plan learning taxonomy

NETS-S Creativity and Innovation Communication and Collaboration Research and Information Fluency b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a varity of sources. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Digital Citizenship a.Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. Technology Operations Operations and Concepts

I can use Authentic Learning in my classroom with the candidates running for President, with the issues that come in the news paper, with items that parents are concerned with and with issues concerning the County. The students interest areas are similar to the intrest of the parents. Some issues recyle like sickness epidemics of the past and the current times.

The unit I am doing on Lewis and Clark and areas of Authenic Assessment could cover issuesof small groups of people and and their challenges they must overcome in relationships such as the issues of the American Indian and the white people that came, how are they today and back then.

The student interest will connect some data for the students to research the number of Native Americans that go to college.

Students will look at the census reports to find the areas that Native Americans have reservtions along the Lewis and Cllark Trail. They will look at problems of Alcohol and housing and jobs in these areas.

Students will plot some trends of the Native American such birth numbers and from the other census reports. This Level of thinking will lead to calculation of food and space requirements for the future.

Students will write a letter on Word docu to the Native American Historical Society requesting information on the trail. They will collaborate with three other students and three adults for a final draft. Then the three students will process the returned information for the end of the unit of study.

The students will be using computers and internet. ( Still working on this)