Research Project
Authors: Sharon Jenkins & Jennifer Slinger
E-mail Address: sjenkins@mail.sandi.net or jhuse@mail.sandi.net
School: Kearny High School
Grade Level: 9th grade Cluster (Adaption to grades 9-12 possible)
Principal Currlcular Areas Addressed: Language Arts
TPFS Section: Tuesdays @ Marston
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 the research of six different African tribes. Things Fall Apart, a novel by Chinue Achebe, dives into the world of the Ibo tribe. Achabe vividly describes various aspects of the tribe, including food, rituals, dress, customs, gods, and ceremonies. The complexity of this tribe is brought out in the novel, and it surprises many of its readers. Research will provide students the opportunity to gain insignt into six more tribes and allow them to see the higher order societies within African tribes.
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.