Project+Framework

Teachers will:


 * create a rubric for the students to follow during creation of their project

Students will:


 * be grouped according to regions
 * make collaborative decisions on how to divide the regional research
 *  create regional group Wikis with pages that address geography, Native Americans, immigrants, industry, natural resources, history, climate/environment, food/culture, language/dialect, micellaneous..notable people - people who made notable contributions to the state or region)
 * create visuals for each state in their regions and save them to their Wikis
 * take virtual tours of the states in their regions
 * research, take notes, and record in paragraph form on their Wikis
 * evaluate/make connections between the states within a region with a singular focus in mind (ex. wind turbines, Mississippi River settlements, etc.) DIG IN! and create an oral presentaion
 * create regional Glogsters as part of the presentations to include writing, interviews, images, etc
 * create large regional floor maps in homerooms
 * create regional backdrops for their presentations (hopefully in art class)
 * establish a group rotation for oral presentations so that every member of each group speaks