The Quest For Discovery

Author(s):Lee Mongrue

E-mail Address:lmongrue@mail.sandi.net

School:Hoover High School

Grade Level: First year high school (ninth grade) students

Principal Currlcular Areas Addressed: Social studies and Language Arts

TPFS Section: Tuesday @ Grant


Topic:

Students will select a topic for historical research which involves the causes and effects of the migration of people within the past 200 years. After doing personal family research for vital statisitcs involving the migration and movement of parents, grandparents, and great grandparents, students may select a "piece of history" they want to learn more about. This will become the topic of research. This "quest" will contain web sites that reflect the topics of interest : Irish immigration, African immigration, etc...

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.