Kuhl-Peterson 09

Teachers Discovering
History As Historians

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Jennifer Kuhl-Peterson

Project Summary 09

1. General Overview of the Proposed Project:

Students will create interactive posters using the website www.glogster.com. The subjects of the posters will include a variety of post WWII topics. They will then present the posters to the class.

2. Clear Purpose and Objective:

The purpose of this project is for students to explore individually a specific topic in a multi-dimensional manner and then as a class, synthesize the topics into what was/is the United States domestic/foreign policy post WWII.

3. Stakeholders: grade level, who will benefit, who will participate in this project.

This lesson is designed for 8^th grade Intermediate History. The direct instruction on how to use the program will be given by two senior Government students

4. U.S. History Content Area

__Issues such as communism, human rights, ecological responsibility, government intervention, global trade, discrimination, genocide, and terrorism. _Events such as the Berlin and Cuban crises, the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Iraqi Wars, presidential elections, and 9/11.

5. Outline Describing Content

Students will be expected to include dates, causes, effects, significance, important people, nations, groups, geopolitical concerns, etc. for the subject of the poster.

6. Software to be used, internet materials, contacts, etc.

www.glogster.com

7. Level of Student Involvement

Students will be fully involved in the creation and presentation of their posters.

8. Evaluation process (include students when possible)

Rubrics will be used for the design/substance of the poster and for the presentation

9. Timeline: how you envision the project being carried out between start up and conclusion. Website instruction and practice will take three days. Content research will require completion of an outline – three to five days. Poster design – five days. Presentations – two to three days.

REFLECTION PIECE

GLOGSTER.COM/EDU PROJECT

SPRING 2009

I. General Overview of the Proposed Project:

This project was very worthwhile. I highly recommend using glogster. The final products varied from very good to incredibly excellent. The students were constantly engaged.

II. Clear Purpose and Objective:

The website provides so much creative possibility that the students were totally involved in learning how to use all applications within it. The assignment itself motivated the students because the post-WWII decades were so full of events/people/music/ etc. that the students were interested in discovering more and more information about the subject.

III. Stakeholders: grade level, who will benefit, who will participate in this project:

The 8^th graders quickly learned how to use the website.

IV. U.S. History Content:

The assignment was organized into the social, political, and economic happenings of the decades. Unfortunately, it became immediately clear that the students were going to spend most of their time investigating the social part (I should have seen that coming!). It was necessary to give them a list of the political and economic events that they had to include plus a study sheet explaining these events.

V. Outline Describing Content:

See attachment

VI. Software to be used, internet materials, contacts, etc.

The students were provided with several websites to use for their research (see attachment). It didn’t work to start with the online encyclopedia because it didn’t have a general description of the decades which was the purpose of using it first.

VII. Level of Student Involvement:

There was total involvement. The students were working on it during study hall, at home. They have really enjoyed presenting the projects as well as creating them. They love the website so much that they convinced the science teacher to assign a project to them that uses it. However, you have to make it perfectly clear that the messaging with their friends is done on their own time, not class time.

VIII. Evaluation process:

Students were evaluated using a rubric (see attachment).

IX. Timeline: how you envision the project being carried out between start up and conclusion:

The general timeline was realistic except for the presentations. The presentations are being limited to about fifteen minutes because there are so many to do. We are returning to the computer lab for two classes so that they can further explore all of the posters for content. The students can view the posters whenever they login to the website.

X. Comments:

Glogster.com/edu s a powerful learning tool. My senior Government classes are now using it with a Time Magazine 100 Most Influential People project.

Jen Kuhl-Peterson

May 21, 2009

8^TH INTERMEDIATE HISTORY

U.S. HISTORY BY THE DECADES

1950-2000

GLOGSTER.COM PROJECT

SPRING 2009

Historians often examine history in a chronological manner. By analyzing the social, political, and economic events that occur in a decade, historians can measure the progress of a nation.

Your goal in this project is to present the important happenings of a particular decade in U.S. history post-WWII. You will need to familiarize yourself thoroughly with the decade in order to be able to choose the information that you wish to include. You will have to understand the information in order to explain it to the class.

Your first step is to use an online encyclopedia you will find through the Hammondsport Library system to read about your decade in U.S. history. You will ask me any questions that you have about the information that you read. Your textbook will also be a resource for you.

You will then use various websites to create a poster illustrating the social, political, and economic events of the decade. Your poster should include not only the events, important people etc. but also the significance of the information to the progress of the United States.

Some suggested websites:

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decades.html

http://melvil.chicousd.org/decsg.html

http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/History/U_S__History/By_Time_Period/20th_Century/

http://www.concord.k12.nh.us/schools/chs/media/decades.htm

http://rhslmc.ramona.k12.ca.us/langarts/decades_03.htm

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/amhsthc.html#20th

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineO.cfm

http://www.ushistory.org/us/5d.asp

http://www.dallas.k12.or.us/DHS_Library/web/decade.htm

http://library.sussex.tec.nj.us/decade.htm

FACTS THAT HAVE TO BE INCLUDED IN YOUR GLOGSTER POSTER