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Student-made Web Pages...Show Off Their Work!
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Designed to teach students how to create a web page using Netscape Communicator's Composer and can be used by students in grades 3-12 to present their projects or research on their school's web page. Designed to be taught in a lab setting and will be used by the technology teacher in coordination with the classroom teacher.
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Wars and Revolutions Part II
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Nationalism and Revolution as well as Democracy in the West during the 1900's
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Wars and Revolutions
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WWI and Russian Revolution importance.
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Nationalism on the Internet
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The purpose of this experience is for the students to investigate and explore the essential question: “What is nationalism and does it bring a country together or does it tear it apart?” and share this information with other tenth graders by using the software program powerpoint to present this information on the school’s web page.
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Parliamentary Procedure
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This lesson will allow the student to participate in a meeting that is run using parliamentary procedure.
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The Great War: World War I and the Treaty of Versa
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This unit, for use with Global History and
Geography classes, focuses on the causes for
World War I and the changes in warfare that took
place. It also examines the Treaty of Versailles
and the reasons why it was written the way it was,
and what the effects of the treaty were.
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Powerpoint and the Art and Literature of WWI
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Students will utilize Microsoft PowerPoint to create a presentation that shows the many effects the war had.
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WWI Cause and Impact
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Students will analyze facts and documents related to the study of WWI. Concepts such as, conflict, nationalism, imperialism, science and technology and the effect geography had on the region will be studied.
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The Renaissance
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This is a Global History Unit on the Renaissance Period. This Unit is designed to implemented in 15 Blocks (87 minutes each), however student acitivies and lesson plans can be transformed to adapt any class schedule. This Unit is constructed to enhance student skills in reading and listening comprehension, research, presenting, and writing. Students will esplain the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance Period, describe the social, political and economic charactersitics of the period, as well as identify major contributions. Students will research and create a PowerPoint presentation on an identified Renaissance personality.
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Who Wants to be a Globainaire
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The purpose of this experience is to familiarize students with PowerPoint while studying for their regent’s exam in Global Studies.
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Latin American Colonial Diary
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Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives
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Age of Revolution
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The purpose of this unit is to create meaningful lesson plans for the Global History teacher when covering the period of Revolution. This time period is often difficult for teachers to cover in a motivating manner. Activities will be interactively, student centered where the students will have opportunities to apply their knowledge in a variety of interdisciplinary tasks that are appealing and definitive.
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Stages of Evolution of the Modern Day Horse
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the seasons of the year, humanities enrich the scientific material. Students need to understand the characteristics of the seasons of the year.
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Remember when....????
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Students will research a decade in the 20th century and will prepare a research paper and a PowerPoint presentation.
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A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement
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How did the aftermath of World War I, the Versailles Treaty, the world economy, and appeasement lead to the Second World War?
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Renaissance in Europe
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Essential Questions: What were the new ways of viewing the world, human nature, arts, learning, and religion of the Renaissance? Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy? What were the economic, social, and technological developments that led to European exploration and conquest? What were the major theological, political, and economic differences that divided the Europeans? In what ways did the Scientific Revolution change views on science? What does the art that a society produces say about the values of that society?
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Banking
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Students will independently set up their own bank account
at the bank of their choice. Students will pick one of the following essential
questions and write a five paragraph essay answering the question. They will
include this in their presentation.
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Frederick Remington: His Life and Times
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Document based research, Internet Research project studies on Frederic Remington, planned and delivered in collaboration across standards areas.
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Frederick Remington: His Life and Times
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Essential Questions: What is the correlation between America's art and it's foreign policy? Can one artist control an entire nation's perception of an era? Is the Internet a useful research tool? Does art imitate life? Are American culture and politics related in any way?
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Career Exploration/Job Shadowing
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This unit is designed to guide students in making career decisions. They will begin by examining their interests, matching their interests to a career, exploring how to attain that career and finally job shadowing a person in that occupation.
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Letters to the Government-Powerpoint
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The students become active participants in their government.
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Good for Business?
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Global Studies students will examine an
assigned country guided by a series of worksheets
and exercises to determine; (1) if Oneida Limited
should expand its market into this country and (2)
if the student would like to represent the company
in this country. Through a series of data collec-
tion and examination exercises the students gain
insight into how to use the gathered information
for decision-making in the culminating writing
activity. Additionally, the unit gives students
an opportunity to see how the content of Global
Studies is relevant in today's inter-dependent
business world.
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American Music History
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This learning unit uses many experiences that tie together to help the students see the relationship between them.
It combines historical events in American history with Music and includes information how history
influenced music. It works well with classes of any size in social studies and music courses.
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Culture and the Caveman
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Using the culture of the Neandertal to explain the concept of culture, which students need to learn for Global Studies.
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Mission Possible
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The webquest is designed for students to access, select and analyze information about a nation using a guided search approach rather than going to the www and searching for information.
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Supermarket Smarts
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High School economics that combines math and technical skills to reach an economic conclusion.
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World in Conflict
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This learning unit is designed to provide learning experiences for 10th grade, heterogeneous classes that utilize approximately 45 minute class periods and will take approximately 10 class days to complete. Students will analyze facts and documents which convey concepts such as conflict, nationalism, imperialism, science and technology, and the effects of geography.
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The Revolutionary War *
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The Revolutionary War: A Timeline
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Korean and Vietnam Conflicts: Similarities and Dif
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Students will gain better awareness of the Korean and Vietnam wars, and appreciation of community members that were participants.
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Outbreak
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Essential Questions: How can you access, generate, process, and transfer information using appropriate technologies? How can you apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science? How have technological changes affected people, places, and regions?
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