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Assignment – due Nov 20

Create a lesson/activity using one or more of the tools discussed so far and align to the NYS Standards down to the performance indicators.

Social Studies: Intermediate
Standard 2: World History

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

Key Idea The study of world history requires an understanding of world cultures and civilizations, including an analysis of important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. This study also examines the human condition and the connections and interactions of people across time and space and the ways different people view the same event or issue from a variety of perspectives.

Performance Indicators

• Students know the social and economic characteristics, such as customs, traditions, child-rearing practices, ways of making a living, education and socialization practices, gender roles, foods, and religious and spiritual beliefs that distinguish different cultures and civilizations.
• Students know some important historic events and developments of past civilizations.
• Students interpret and analyze documents and artifacts related to significant developments and events in world history.

Middle Ages for 7^th Grade

Go to the following website: http://www.kathimitchell.com/middleages.htm

Look at the format of the page. You are going to make a similar page using pictures and a table. For example, click on the first cell in the table – history and maps. You will go to each of the websites and pick the best one for history and the best one for maps for you as a seventh grader. You will write why you think it is the best and put it into your project. Do the same thing for each of the cells. Some of the sites will be too hard to understand; some sites will not work. If you cannot find a good site for that topic, you may go to Google and find a replacement.

Unlike the web site, each of your topics will go to only one site - the best one.

Picture Picture Picture

Table Inserted Here

(Your table must include all the topics except Ideas for Teachers (lower right corner) found on the above web page – you will be doing a separate one for maps and history so that will give you 24 sites)

Each of your topics will go to only one site - the best one. Then you will write why it is the best site.

Once you have designed your Middle Ages Page, you will write 25 questions that can be answered from your page. You will write the answers as well. You will do this as a class! Go to http://hchild.pbwiki.com/FrontPage Click on Edit Page. The password is hca. Use this password and your first name only, and then go to the bottom of the page and type in your questions and answers. If you think your question is better than one that is already there, you can change it. Just make sure your question is better.

This project will be graded on the appearance of your page; the web choices you make; the questions you ask on the wiki page. Your questions should be comprehensive and elicit answers that are comprehensive as well.

For example, if you go to the web site: http://www.mrdowling.com/703middleages.html

Your question might be: Why is the name Dark Ages not really accurate?