Author(s): Jim Gibilisco and Rm. 19 Students
E-mail Address: jgibilis@mail.sandi.net
School: U. S. Grant Elementary - San Diego Unified School District
Grade Level: 5-7
Principal Curricular Areas Addressed: (to make it easier for us to index this idea, use standard terms like Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, etc.)
TPFS Section: Tuesdays@Grant
Students will create messages to the important people in world history, warning them of upcoming events, and ensuring the important person's success.
Students will have to research significant events in world history and discover the nature of the event and the important players surrounding the event.
Students will have to create a warning message to the important players that forewarn them about impending problems.
Students will have to create a plan that will ensure the success of the important person and communicate that plan to the important person.
In this space, write a short paragraph about the idea. What's the main idea? What kinds of things might be included? What's not going to included?
This project will cover...
Learning Goals:
What kinds of things do you hope your students will learn? You might want to put objectives in the form of a bulleted list like this:
Student will learn...
Learner Task:
What are you going to ask your learners to do/perform/create to indicate that they've learned what you wanted them to learn? An oral presentation? A letter to the President? A HyperStudio representation of a tidal pool? A simulated diary of a pioneer?
The culiminating task in this project might be...
Resources:
What websites have you already identified that might be useful? What books, tapes and other offline resources do you know about?
Resources for this project idea might include....
When you're done
drafting your idea, erase all the green text prompts, and save the
file under an appropriate name like tide-investigation.html. Your
instructor or one of the mentors will collect it for you and it will
be posted on the symposium website in a day or two.