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  Student-made Web Pages...Show Off Their Work! 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.
  All Roads Lead to Rome After examining Ancient Greece, students compare and contrast two great civilizations.
  Middle Ages How did cultural patterns link the people of western and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages?
  The Renaissance 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.
  European Explorer's Photo Journal This project will provide us, as teachers, with an opportunity to have students research an explorer and apply what they have learned in a format that allows students to write creatively, while acquiring the knowledge of a particular explorer's life, journey, and discovery.
  To Strike or Not? The purpose of this Learning Experience is to help students understand how certain occupations going on strike can seriously affect peoples lives .
  Latin American Colonial Diary 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
  Stages of Evolution of the Modern Day Horse the seasons of the year, humanities enrich the scientific material. Students need to understand the characteristics of the seasons of the year.
  Age of Imperialism in Asia, Latin America & Africa Is it possible that imperialism in Africa, Asia, and the Americas led to progress?
  Remember when....???? Students will research a decade in the 20th century and will prepare a research paper and a PowerPoint presentation.
  Renaissance in Europe 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?
  Banking 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.
  Frederick Remington: His Life and Times Document based research, Internet Research project studies on Frederic Remington, planned and delivered in collaboration across standards areas.
  Frederick Remington: His Life and Times 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?
  Career Exploration/Job Shadowing 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.
  Letters to the Government-Powerpoint The students become active participants in their government.
  Good for Business? 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.
  American Music History 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.
  Culture and the Caveman Using the culture of the Neandertal to explain the concept of culture, which students need to learn for Global Studies.
  Mission Possible 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.
  Supermarket Smarts High School economics that combines math and technical skills to reach an economic conclusion.
  Where is That From? Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live-local, national, and global-including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the earth's surface. Performance indicator: describe the relationships between people and environments and the connections between people and places.
  Korean and Vietnam Conflicts: Similarities and Dif Students will gain better awareness of the Korean and Vietnam wars, and appreciation of community members that were participants.





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