Historical+Diaries


 * Created by: Michele Linn**

I created historical diaries as starters. These Power Point starters, (using Dr. lamb's templates), provide an inquiry based learning approach for students in the middle school range. The starters incorporate visuals in clip art and picture format. Instructions are provided through sound recordings, and students are actively engaged by choosing clip art, photos, qoutes, and inserting text, (a one page diary entry). Additionally, speaker notes consist of credits to links that provided the clip art, photos, and quotes. To allow the students thorough instructions, a sample is provided for them. The first diary consists of the [|first ten Presidents]. The second diary consists of the [|signers of the Declaration of Independence]. One could do so many different starters with this theme. For example, the 13 colonies, ten famous artists, ten mammals, ten inventions, ten plants, insects, butterfly breeds, and on and on. Creating starters this way will allow students to learn information about a select group. Hopefully, this in turn, will entice the students into exploring other areas beyond the select groups. For example, after researching the Signers of the Declaration of Independence students could explore the colonies, the wars, battles, the people, etc. Additionally, teachers could expand on the starters and create unit plans on the subjects. For example, a unit could start with The Boston Tea Party, then the Revolutionary war, and follow with the starter, The Signers of The Declaration of Independence.

-[|The First Ten Presidents] -[|Declaration of Independence]
 * Completed Student samples of :**

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