Assignment #5 Class Presentations from Fall, 2005
EDC-G660 "Designing Secondary Curriculum and Learning Strategies"
Professor Sevian
University of Massachusetts-Boston

Student's Initials
Links for this Lesson
LC
Did Hoover Cause the Depression? - A webquest to explore the causes and effects of the Depression era and political blame.
KP
Meeting House Talk Show - A webquest to introduce students to Julia Alvarez prior to reading her work, Names/Nombres.
RA
Chaucer - A website of all things Chaucer; an excellent resource when teaching Chaucer.
CC
PBS Building Big Labs - A website with online "labs" where students can try out properties of different materials used in construction. An excellent resource for teaching engineering/technology frameworks standards.
KG
Poetry - A PowerPoint presentation to introduce poetry.
MQ
Jim Crow Museum - A museum dedicated to preserving memorabilia of racial segregation, civil rights, and anti-Black caricatures, to promote scholarly examination of racism as well as to promote racial understanding and healing. Used in a lesson designed to have students confront the Jim Crow legacy and consider its implications today.
DK
Dystopian Nightmare or Savage Reality? - A webquest designed to help students prepare to write a research paper on the question, "Are we living in an Orwellian world?"
CL
Rome - A PowerPoint presentation about life in ancient Rome. Uses the History Alive website also.
BN
The Cay - A PowerPoint presentation that is a webquest to guide student through a performance task that builds upon what students learn from reading The Cay by Theodore Taylor. This lesson also requires the Topic Organizer document.
SM
Using Primary Sources for Research - An interactive PowerPoint presentation that guides students to discover in what ways primary sources are powerful and useful in preparing research papers. In the process, students are introduced to a rich variety of primary sources and they learn how to access many different kinds of primary sources.
CA
Writing a Paragraph - An interactive PowerPoint presentation to help sixth graders learn the basics of writing a paragraph.
JP
Taxonomy Webquest - A webquest to teach students about classifying organisms. Requires the use of these Taxonomy Images. Also, if you have Inspiration software, use this Taxonomy Webquest file.
SR
Leonardo DaVinci exhibit - Using the interactive website on Leonardo DaVinci created by the Museum of Science, students will explore the world of art, science, and invention according to DaVinci. Using this information, they will decide if DaVinci really was a Renaissance man.
SW
Smells Like Teen Spirit video - Video and audio of the Nirvana song, along with lyrics, used to explore with students how emotions and imagery contribute to themes.
LR
We Want You! - to become a polygon expert. A PowerPoint presentation that is like a webquest and a game together.
TR
Phase changes in water - Animations, interactive quizzes, and other fun stuff to learn about how water particles behave in different phases as the temperature of the water increases.
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Others? - This space reserved for other presentations