Author(s): Trace and Judy
E-mail Address:tcandage@mail.sandi.net
E-mail Address:jswatt@mail.sandi.net
School: Encanto Elementary
Grade Level: 4-5
Principal Currlcular Areas Addressed: Social Studies
TPFS Section: Wednesdays @ Encanto
This project will cover how the California Gold Rush changed settlements. It will include positive and negative impacts for the peoples of the time.
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.