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__American WWII History__

**American History** **WWII End Goal** – Every student will gain an in depth understanding of WWII by exploring, discovering, making conclusions, and sharing their knowledge Group chooses GENERAL topic – expand topic, and incorporate ALL learning styles – linguistic, spatial, musical, bodily kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, logical mathematical into the final productYou will be assessed on communication and presentation skills, organization and time management skills, research and inquiry skills, self-assessment and reflection skills, and group participation and leadership skills in conjunction with the content.Steps: 1. create a "driving question" that has roots in a real-world problem and ideally uses multiple content areas. You will investigate and seek resolutions to problems and gain understanding of key principles and concepts2. actively engage your effort to investigate concepts, apply information, and represent knowledge in a variety of ways to create an expanded, rather than narrow, view of subject matter3. Collaboration among students, teachers, and others so that knowledge can be shared and distributed between the members of the "learning community"Be sure to visit the link on Moodle -- Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Ideas for ideas of projects and how to begin creating your essential question or problem statement. (Essential Question: What is it that you want to know - higher level thinking / Problem Statement: What problem are you seeking answers to? Well written problem statements will convince your audience that the problem is real and worth having you investigate) a. Roosevelt – moral embargo, was he truly neutral, why did he regret the Neutrality Act of i. General Douglas MacArthur b. Stalin c. Mussolini d. Hirohito / Tojo e. Churchill e. General Franco f. Tripartite Treaty
 * 1. Who’s Who of WWII **

WWII Project Planning Sheet 1. Group members: 2. Blooms taxonomy key words -- Remember... Before we can understand a concept we have to remember it Before we can apply the concept we must understand it Before we analyse it we must be able to apply it Before we can evaluate its impact we must have analysed it Before we can create we must have remembered, understood, applied, analysed, and evaluate Students will build on a basis of knowledge, recall, and comprehension to use and apply skills; to analyse and evaluate process, outcomes and consequences, and to make, create and innovate using the Bloom’s Taxonomy for Digital Learning Website on Moodle, discover your content and NEW technological tools while exploring your content. Ideas to develop / What could you do for each of these steps:

a. **Remember** - online quizlet, zoho documents, clozed activites, Star office, hot potato, basic searches, worksheets b. **Understand** - wiki, microblog, twitter, blog - subscribe to blogs, annotating, threaded discussion, mindmeister, Boolean Searches c. **Application** - illustrate, online games, videos, inkscape, comic strips, d. **Analysis** - survey monkey, online polls, mind maps e. **Evaluate** - discussion boards, elluminate, forums, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> f. **Create** - movie maker, Pinnacle studio, eyespot.com, Zoho, charts, flow charts, freemind, prezi


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Ideas for incorporating Learning Styles -- use the Moodle Link: Learning Styles Project Ideas **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a. **Linguistic:** word & language learning, writing speaking, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">b. **Musical**: uses music, rhythm, tone, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">c. **Bodily Kinesthetic:** people who process info thru sensations they feel in their bodies <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">d. **Interpersonal:** ability to interpret and respond to moods, emotions, motivations and actions of others <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">e. **Intrapersonal**: ability to know oneself, understand emotions, motivations and be aware of their strengths and weaknesses. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">f. **Logical Mathematical:** data, collect, organize, and analyze and interpret, conclude and predict <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">g. **Spatial:** ability to form and manipulate a mental model

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> b. **fotobabble--**talking captions/images <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> c. **inkscape**--animatio <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> d.**classtools.net**--game creator <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> e. **button generator**--web based addition tool
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Discuss the Web 2.0 site -- Make a List of FIVE of the most interesting sites that you would like to possibly explore **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a. animoto-- **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">online video editing

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> --- begin to incorporate the Bloom’s Taxonomy stages of discovering your content
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Read book/take notes/quick searches to begin to gain background knowledge **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**6. Create Driving Question (Essential Question / Problem Statement)** - refer to project sheet


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Actively research and collaborate to answer question/solve problem statement **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Create project to demonstrate knowledge **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Present **