# Table1

Key Concepts:
Research skills both traditional and non-traditional

Outcomes:
Students will be able to evaluate sources, organize sources, and begin research

Activity:
Look at several online sources to determine credibility as a class
Students will research their topics in the library
As they are going along, they are to use the database template provided to keep record of their annotated sources

Materials:
computers with internet access and database software, books, printer


Outcomes:
Students will be able to create a digital timeline

Activity:
Using their HW draft, students create their timeline using a word processing program
Students copy and paste or insert images into their timeline
Students edit and format the layout of their text and media elements

Materials:
Computer with internet access and word processing software, printer


Outcomes:
Students will be able to look at a website and assess its validity

Activity:
As a class, come up with a list of WWII terms and events
Students will go to www.wikipedia.com and determine the accuracy of an event based upon the students’ knowledge and outside sources
Terms and events will be added to class webpage


Key Concepts:
Tenements, Tammany Hall, Hull House, and Jane Addams

Outcomes:
Students will be able to evaluate the positives and negatives of an expanding industrialized nation

Activity:
Using pictures from Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives which can be found at (http://tenant.net/Community/Riis/illustrations.html) students dissect the living conditions of the average New Yorker
Lecture/Class Discussion on the choices and consequences of certain groups and individuals (i.e. - Plunkett, Jane Addams, Eastern and Southern Europeans) and assess the ramifications these immigration stories have on today

Materials:
Computer with internet access, projector


Outcomes:
Students will be able to explore origins and definitions of the word "budget," analyze parts of a budget

Activity:
Answer the question, What is a budget?
As a class, read and discuss the article "Critics Say Money for Schools Falls Short of Promises,"
Using http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2004/pdf/budget.pdf, students will answer questions about the national budget on a worksheet  
Email secretary of Treasury to see how close to reality students' budget sheets are
Create a budget sheet of your own with graphs of how the budget is being spent

Note:
Authors: Clayton DeKorne, The New York Times Learning Network
Tanya Yasmin Chin, The Bank Street College of Education in New York City
From http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20030206thursday.html

Title:
Exploring How a Federal Budget Reflects Government Spending Priorities

Materials:
Computers with internet access, copies of "Critics Say Money for Schools Falls Short of Promises," worksheets


Outcomes:
Students will be able to create a presentation outlining a solution to tensions in the Middle East

Activity:
All students are grouped up and go to http://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/mid-east/index.htm
Follow the Process to ultimately create a presentation to give to the class
On-going: Use the Blog to discuss the issue

Note:
Author: Carolyn Burleson
From: http://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/mid-east/index.htm

Title:
A Quest for Peace in the Middle East Webquest

Materials:
Computers with internet access, Essay Organizer, and presentation software


Outcomes:
Students will be able to understand and place themselves into the shoes of a social group of the late 19th Century

Activity:
Using the internet and notes from previous classes, students will put together the main ideas of each of the three sides and create an Inspiration chart/diagram/web 
Students will be broken up into three groups and prepare for a debate

Materials:
Computers with internet access, word processing and Inspiration software, printer


Key Concepts:
All important and pertinent facts about each Commonwealth of Independent States) CIS country

Outcomes:
Students will be able to take one country from the CIS and evaluate the most important facts about that country; students will be able to create a story

Activity:
Students will research a country in the computer lab using the CIA World Factbook www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/  
Classmates will type up a fiction story using the facts
If time permits, students will share their facts and/or story with the class

Materials:
Computer with internet access and word processor, printer, worksheet


Outcomes:
Students will be able to discuss and assess the different roles and classes within Egyptian society

Activity:
Using the PBS.org website, students will learn about various classes that existed in ancient Egypt
Students will then share with each other what they have learned

Materials:
Worksheet and computer with internet access


Key Concepts:
Culture, origin and development of culture

Outcomes:
Students will understand the meaning of culture

Activity:
Class participation- Students will individually write up a list of cultural traits/characteristics.  In small groups, students will then come up with items in American culture that fit these traits (i.e. - Food= apple pie).  As a class we will go over all of these items.
Students will then look up definitions on www.dictionary.com of key cultural terms
Students will research and put together a small presentation of several terms, exact definitions, and explanations
Students will present their findings through use of multimedia software

Materials:
Worksheet, Computer with internet access and presentation software, projector


