Ryan+Gates+Research+Project

=Ryan Gates=



**Task Definition:**

 * Task: Students will be learning about the Immigration experience to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Students will be selecting a country that immigrants were arriving from and research many aspects of the immigration.**
 * Include research task and final outcome**.**
 * Planning resources for you. (Find descriptors and higher level tasks)
 * [|Bloom's Digital Taxonomy]
 * **NETS S** - for Students
 * Sample Tasks

**Information Seeking Strategies:**

 * Task: Students will use a variety of potential sources to do their research.**

**Location and Access:**
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 * Task: Organize sources for students to easily access online.**
 * **Choices:**
 * Qwiki
 * SweetSearch
 * Twurdy
 * Google Safe Search for Kids

**Use of Information**

 * Task: ** Students will be researching different groups arriving to America in the Late 19th and Early 20th centuries. 1) Their first task will be to select a country that they and their family will be leaving. 2) They will then tell why they are leaving that country at that particular time and why they are choosing to come to America based on their research of that country and its problems at the time. 3) They will decide how they plan on getting their new life rolling in America. Where in America they will relocate to? How will they support their family? Do they know people there already? etc... 4) They will discuss potential challenges they face arriving in America at that point in time. 5) Students will post pictures or videos that represent their immigration experience.

**Synthesis**

 * Task : Create a sample project**
 * Possible products**
 * Wiki sample: Names of the Constitution, A. Kannan
 * Glogster sample: Jamestown Settlement This is an instructional glog, used as a sample for teachers
 * Google Presentation sample, Catastrophic Events, P. Frick
 * VoiceThread sample: Narrative Poems about American History, A. Peterson
 * Dipity Timeline sample: Civil Rights Hot Spots, S. Oxnevad
 * Other

**Evaluation**

 * Rubric: See Kathy Schrock's picks>

= **Teacher Notes:** What do you need to remember to be successful? =