Goal:  To help students understand the current conflict that is underway
in the Middle East and Europe.

Objective:  To help students to be able to make informed decisions about
the crisis that our country is involved in.  Students will know all key
players and how the conflict started in the first place.

Procedure:  The day before the lesson, students will be asked to bring
in an article on the crisis in Kosovo.  The next day they will first
discuss their articles and then log on to the WWW and find as much
information as possible.  Students will be divided into groups and given
a certain topic concerning the conflict to research.

Closure:  Students will share all of the information that they gathered
and then be asked to prepare a single page essay on how they feel the
issue of Kosovo should be handled and why.  They should include
information that they gathered and personal opinion.

Castles
Developed by Shannon Gantick
EDU 360
Grade level: 10\ World Civilizations
 

Objective:  Students will have a full understanding of the medieval time
period and the magnificent structures that people lived in.  They will
be able to explain the details of a castle and the purpose of each
structure.

Procedure:  Students will be divided into groups of four and will be
asked to use the WWW to find as many pictures of castles as possible.
They will then use these pictures to develop their own layout for a
castle.  This will be turned into the teacher and upon approval the
students will have two weeks to build their proposed castle with what
ever tools and materials that they find necessary.

Conclusion:  On the date that the castles are due, each group will be
asked to present their castle and explain all of its features and what
they made it out of.  The castles will remain on display for a week and
then returned to their owners.  Students shall now be able to explain
all of the features of castles, including protective structures, wells,
kitchens, etc.
 

Course: World History

Grade: 9

Topic: Bosnia and Hertzegovina

Lesson Developed by: Sarah Etchells

Assignment: present a cultural project ranging from a dance to a power
point presentation about the customs and culture of this warring state.

Purpose: Bring into a personal relationship with a group of cultures
that we have only heard of through their wars with one another.

Students will utilize the Internet as a resource guide and, if so
choose, use Microsoft's Power Point presentation software to bring
across their knowledge to the class.

Lesson Plan by Heather Quadrato

 Teacher¹s Role: The teacher will be responsible for contacting host schools.

 Objective: This will be a year long project. My end result is that the students will become familiar with the Internet and a student in another community and their environment.

 Procedure: The students will be assigned a person that they will be a ³pen pal² with. The students can discuss whatever they want., but will be responsible for writing a paper about what they learned about the society that their ²pen pal² was from. They will need to know such things as the population, climate, capitol, recreation, and other facts about the country. The students will also be keeping a journal about their conversations (They can print out all letters sent to one another as a journal as well).

 Evaluation: Will be from the students journal and from their papers.
 

Lesson Plan Two:

 Entry Level Characteristics: The students will have basic computer knowledge and use of resource material such as encyclopedias.

 Role of Teacher: To guide the students along in their research by answering questions that might arise.

 Objectives: The students will write A five page typed paper and do an oral presentation on it. The paper will be about a country or city that they are interested in.

 Classroom Arrangement: The students will be paired in groups of two.

 Resource Materials: Computer with Microsoft Word/MacGlobe programs. Encyclopedias and other library resources.

 Initiation: The students will be discussing places they have visited or would like to visit.

 Procedures: Assign partners, then have the students choose their topics. The students will be required to hand in a typed rough draft (explain that if they have it typed the corrections will be much easier). Two weeks later the students hand in the final copy and do their presentation.

 Evaluation: The evaluation is based on the presentation.