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Subject: |
Civilizations |
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Thematic Scenario: |
Discovering Civilizations
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Contexts\Outcomes: |
Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship among the
perspectives, practices, and products of the civilizations studied.
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Learn from Selected Countries/Cultures: |
Geographical background information
Cultural background information
Historical background
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Strategies: |
Pair Activities:
Pairs of students create a mythological creature or
god representing the selected culture.
Cooperative Learning:
Student groups assemble time capsules
representing a new civilization.
Students generate a dig box of
recovered items.
Students depict hieroglyphics, including names and
mottos from the selected culture.
Venn Diagrams:
Students use a Venn
diagram to compare/contrast a discovered civilization with their
own.
Concept Ladders:
Students develop a concept ladder
characterizing items found in a simulated archeological dig.
Comparison
Charts:
Student groups chart comparative elements of
legends.
Researching legends, civilizations, and cultures:
Students
view and discuss a slide show representing various
civilizations.
Students read and analyze legends from the selected
culture.
Research historical background information.
Internet
research.
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Assessments: |
Oral Presentation:
Students write and illustrate, sing, or act out a
legend.
Written Project:
Student groups create civilization criteria
guides.
Final Project (Oral presentation with graphics as visual
cues.):
Student groups invent their own civilization.
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Resources: |
Internet research/resources
Library research/resources
PowerPoints
Literature
Simulated digs
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