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SUMMER
1998
One of the principle assignments for the Summer 1998 workshop
required students to produce a teaching unit / independent study
unit web site.
The best representative web sites
resulting from this assignment are listed below by author and topic.
NORMA
JEAN ARENDT
- a three-week Junior High School
cultural studies unit centering on Celebrations
with ties to art and music classes and including a scheduled trip
to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
KYRA
BURTON
- An expansion of the "Middle Ages"
to include China in the Eastern
Middle Ages, a course of study for advanced high school students.
STEVEN
CAWTHON*
- Latin
American Baseball Players in the Big Leagues: a resource-oriented
site for an already - established one semester High School level
course on Sports History providing links to the rules and history
of American baseball, the history of Latin American players on
American Major League teams, profiles of both past and current
Latin Americans playing in the United States and some of Steve's
favorite general internet links.
SUSAN
CAPELLO
- "In
The Beginning...": an introductory social studies unit for
eighth grade students examining aspects of location, geography
and climate using maps, mythology, exploratory field trips --
and lots of critical thinking skills!
ROBERT
CORRIGAN*
- Ancient
Mesopotamia -- an introductory unit covering geography, the
arts, literature and law for high school courses in World History.
SUSAN
E. FOLEY*
- A "Cultural Diffestival" concludes
this series of lessons for seventh graders on Cultural
Diffusion; the material explores customs, food and other examples
of cultural exchange, especially those involving the societies
of the non-western world.
ELIAS
GORMAN*
- a series of lessons on GeoHistory
designed for use by High School teachers interested in expanding
their teaching into Subsaharan Africa, Latin America and South
Asia as part of a World History course of study. Includes
a nice set of related web site links as well.
JOHN
LAUFER*
- An Introduction
to World History for high school students "with an emphasis
on geography skills, global views, and an exploration of the process
of writing a historical account of an event".
ROBERT
LAURICH*
- An inroductory examination of
the culture of the Warrior
in Japan, Africa and Central America.
WILLIAM
MATHEWS*
- an Introduction
to World History unit for eleventh graders which examines
the sources of conflict in perceived differences introduced by
geography, climate and aspects of culture.
JOSEPH
PTAK*
- A consideration of the use of
Indigenous
Histories to teach World History, using examples from Mexico
and Central America to examine problems and issues involved in
doing so.
STACY
TUTAK
- The
French Revolution and Its Impact on English Romantic Literature
is a unit for high school students which looks specifically at
the writings of Wordsworth, Shelley and Byron as reflections of
the revolutionary spirit in the romantic literary movement in
Great Britian; the unit works to unify history and literature,
to move beyond the "simply factual" in search of deeper meanings
and insights.
As you look through each web site, keep
in mind that these represent STUDENT efforts, not the polished work
of professional educators / web site developers (although some obviously
had the help and support of knowledgeable resource persons).
Those enrolled in the workshop included experienced classroom teachers
interested in beginning to develop an internet expertise, several
undergraduates preparing to enter the teaching profession and others
with no intention of teaching but sharing an interest in world history
and / or the internet. Not surprisingly the quality of the resulting
projects varies considerably in terms both of content and presentation.
Consulting the evaluations accompanying
each web site unit should help make those contemplating the use
of any of these efforts in their own classrooms aware of both the
positive and negative consequences of doing so.
- Please feel free to send your
comments about individual efforts to the authors where an email
address is listed or (concerning the project evaluations themselves)
to the site web master. Thanks for your interest in this
undertaking!
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