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Investigation
Part
One: Creating the Museum Exhibit
Your
team has been assigned to research one of the following aspects
of this transformation: business, communication, growing cities,
home life, government and politics, leisure activities, people and
communities, technology, transportation, and work. You will find
a link below for each of these aspects.
- Meet
as a group to preview the documents in your research folder. Complete
the Document
Preview.
- Each
person must do in-depth research on at least 3 documents. Decide
as a group who is going to research which documents, and record
your choices on your Document
Preview.
- Complete
your individual research of the documents using a Document
Analysis Worksheet (for written or audio documents)
OR a Visual
Artifact Analysis (for photographs, illustrations,
and other graphic images) for each document.
- Meet
as a group to share what you have learned. Complete What
We Learned.
- You
have had the opportunity to talk with a museum curator, someone
who creates exhibits for museums, about how to choose artifacts
for a museum exhibit. Use what you learned from this discussion,
from your research, and what you already know, to decide which
of the documents you have researched best represent the changes
during this time period. As a group, choose at least 3 documents
to include in your exhibit. Complete the Exhibit
Planner to explain which ones you have chosen and
why. You must get this approved by your teacher before you move
on.
- Each
person in your group must take responsibility for creating a PowerPoint
slide to exhibit one document. The slide must include a representation
of the document along with a description of what the document
is, what it means, and what it tells us about this time period.
Decide as a group who will take responsibility for which document
and record your choices on your Exhibit
Planner.
- Your
exhibit must include your interpretation of these changes. Based
on what you already know about this time period, were these changes
good for the average American at this time? Do they represent
progress for most Americans? You must agree on an answer as a
group, and your answer, or interpretation, will affect how you
create your exhibit. Complete Interpretation
and Pre-writing Activity as a group. You must get
this approved by your teacher before you move on. (Depending on
how you answer the question as a group, you may have to go back
and choose different documents which will better support your
thesis.)
- Individually
complete a Storyboard
for each of your PowerPoint slides. You must get these approved
by your teacher before you can move on to the computer.
- Work
at your computers to create your own slides, based on your storyboards.
Use the Instructions
for Creating a PowerPoint Slide to guide you. Use
the Artifact Text Panel
Rubric to guide your work.
- Complete
your Exhibit
Storyboard as a group. Combine your individual slides
into one presentation. The Instructions
for Creating a PowerPoint Presentation include directions
on how to do this. Your presentation must have a title slide,
one slide for each document, a conclusion slide, and a slide with
credits and bibliographic information. Work as a group to make
sure your presentation is integrated and works as a whole. Evaluate
your exhibit according to the Exhibit
Rubric, and complete a Group
Process Evaluation.
Part
Two: Visiting and Evaluating the Exhibits
Once all the exhibits are complete, you will visit each one with
your group to evaluate
the work of your fellow historians. You will also take notes
about the kinds of changes that took place. Once visiting day is
over, the exhibits will be available on Blackboard for you to re-visit.
Part
Three: Putting it All Together
You will write a three-paragraph essay in class about whether or
not these changes represent progress. You will be evaluated according
to the Individual Essay Rubric.
N.Y.
Giants team, baseball. Created/Published c1905. From Taking the
Long View: Panoramic Photographs,
1851-1991 from American Memory: Historical Collections for the National
Digitized Library.
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