Prairies, Pioneers, and Partnerships: Matching Standards, Resources, and Engaging Projects The following text and links are from a PowerPoint presentation.

Align Content/Standards

• Transform Traditional Activities
• Create WebQuests
• Develop Project Partnerships
• Manage Projects: Empowering Students

Content & Standards

Pioneers were disappointed to find how few supplies would fit into their wagon.

Identifying Standards

• National Gov't
• National Groups
• State Level
• Local Level

http://www.negp.gov/

http://www.negp.gov/WEBPG10.htm

http://www.negp.gov/Reports/20nelson.htm

http://www.edweek.org/context/orgs/

http://www.aasa.org/index.htm

http://www.aasa.org/Issues/assessment.htm

http://www.neat-schoolhouse.org/Office/Teacher/Classroom_Related/Educational_Associations.html

http://www.nsta.org/

http://www.ncss.org/

http://www.ncss.org/standards/toc.html

http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/assess.htm

State Level

• Compare state standards
• Use other states for ideas
• Look for online ideas

http://putwest.boces.org/Standards.html

http://putwest.boces.org/StSt/Illinois.html

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/default.html

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/intro/history.html

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/standards/fourth/index.htm

http://admin.doe.k12.ga.us/gadoe/sla/qcccopy.nsf/MainNav?OpenNavigator

http://www.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/lessons/query_lp.hts?grade=4&area=3

http://www.ncrel.org/ncrel/sdrs/areas/gs0cont.htm

http://www.mcrel.org/standards/

http://www.mcrel.org/standards/articles/8-questions.asp

http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/

http://www.mcrel.org/resources/plus/

Lesson Plans

• Take the easy route.
• Find help!
• Lesson plans
• Project ideas
• Web resources

http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse

http://www.microsoft.com/education/lesson/default.asp

http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/

http://l2l.ed.psu.edu/success/L2L_INDX.HTM

http://thegateway.org/

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/

Pioneer Life

• Don't let standards scare you!
• Create charts
• Match content
• Toss the rest!

Transforming Traditional Activities

To survive on the prairie, pioneers had to modify their old ways and learn new skills.

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/prairie.htm

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/grasslnd/main.htm

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/grasslnd/story/index.htm

http://www.highlands.w-cook.k12.il.us/prairie/prairie1.html

http://www.blackfootedferret.org/prairie.html#top

http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~kenr/tallgrass.html

http://www.tallgrass.org/

http://www.greatplains.org/npresource/1998/ppregion/ppregion.htm

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/pioneer.htm

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1800/welcome.htm

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/may20.html

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/6400/

http://www.bright.net/%7etomhoman/page31.html

http://www.bright.net/%7etomhoman/page43.html

http://www.carlinville.macoupin.k12.il.us/west/frontier.htm

http://www.osv.org/kids/articles5.htm

http://eaves.math.utk.edu/~williams/Pioneer/pioneer.html

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/farming.htm

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/oralhst.htm

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/journl.htm

Literature Ladders

• Book Connections
• Authors
• Lesson Plans
• Content Resources

http://eduscapes.com/ladders/index.html

http://eduscapes.com/newbery/86a.html

http://www.harperchildrens.com/howabook/pmstate.htm

http://k12.albemarle.org/Sutherland/MPicard/studentPublishing/authorEssays/maclachlan.html

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/sarah/sarahtg.htm

http://collaboratory.nunet.net/bookclubs/sarah.html

http://www.amered.com/curr/mwspt.html

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/rdg/kidviews/grade4/sarah.html

Explore Lesson Plans

• Match to your outcomes
• Transform a traditional activity
• Action Word Ideas
• Student Project Ideas

Plan Trips

• Around Illinois
• Trace a historic journey
• Trace Sarah's trip

http://mapquest.com

Use Graphics

Copy pictures

• make postcards
• write a story
• write a letter
• a day in the life

http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/graphics/

http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/graphics/elsmore.htm

 

Modify Photos

http://members.aol.com/ntgen/hrtg/wol.html

http://www.usps.gov/history/his1.htm

5Ws Project

• Where are you?
• Who's with you?
• What are you doing?

Sarah's Prairie Life

• Today and Yesterday
• Compare Maine & Kansas
• Prairie plant/animals

http://www.awav.net/prairie/

http://www.awav.net/prairie/prairie.html

http://www.wheatmania.com/

Sarah's Maine

• Seashore
• Ocean
• Shells
• Sealife

http://coa.acnatsci.org/conchnet/do.html

http://www.uwp.edu/academic/biology/bmsm/selshels.htm

http://www.wildlupine.com/andrewruelphotography.htm

Use Photos

• Postcards
• Poems
• Reports
• News articles

Wildflowers

• List the wildflowers from the book
• Ragwort
• Create a prairie mural
• Build an online wildflower trail

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/wildflwr/wildflwr.htm

http://history.cc.ukans.edu/heritage/prairie/prairie.html

Transforming Activities

Scanner

• Scan
• seeds
• leaves
• bark
• outdoor objects

Digital Camera

• Photograph
• plants
• animals
• people
• objects

Paint Software

• Draw maps
• Create landscapes
• Sketch plants
• Combine scanning, photos, clip art

Sounds

• Animals
• Outside sounds
• Folk music
• Instruments

Real Objects

• Describe
• Speculate
• Compare
• Create
• Create

Combine

• word process
• clip art
• paper
• markers
• boxes

Expand

• Don't just scoop, apply...
• defend
• decide
• create
• persuade

Natural Area Projects

• What's a prairie?
• plants
• animals
• water
• objects

http://www.sd81.k12.wa.us/Regal/DishmanHills/56DHill.htm

http://imc.lisd.k12.mi.us/wayne/alsummer.html

http://imc.lisd.k12.mi.us/wayne/august/flowers/august.html

Prairie Exploration

• Plants
• Animals
• Murals
• Recreations

http://ngp.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/critters.html

Try It

http://ngp.ngpc.state.ne.us/sounds/sounds.html

• Copy a picture and a sound.
• Learn more about your animal!

History Projects

• Living history farms and museums
• Artifacts
• recording
• creating

http://westville.org/

http://www.museum.state.il.us/mic_home/

Pioneer Tools

• Trace the history of a tool: then & now
• Create a tool matching game
• Identify the purpose of tools

http://www.connerprairie.org/cp/agimp.html

http://www.lis.ab.ca/walton/old/

http://www.lis.ab.ca/walton/old/butter.html

Pioneer Food

• Food
• Recipes
• Healthy eating

http://www.iron.k12.ut.us/schools/north/cookbook/introduction.htm

http://www.carlinville.macoupin.k12.il.us/west/kitchen.htm

http://little.nhlink.net/nhlink/educatio/teaching/es/es03d.htm

http://www.jerkyusa.com/recipes.html

http://scholar.coe.uwf.edu/pacee/steps/two/west/day11.htm

http://tqjunior.advanced.org/6400/recipes.htm

Pioneer Experience

• Compare pioneers from different areas and time periods

http://heritage.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/index.hts

Pioneer Arts & Crafts

• Write step by step instructions
• Take digital pictures

http://users.drak.net/magick_manor/dip.html

http://www.campbellusd.k12.ca.us/~kwoods/woodscor.htm

http://www.ontariocorn.org/husk2.html

http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~caj/wheel.html

http://www.lis.ab.ca/walton/old/soaphome.html

http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/INFO_Files/Soapmaking.html

http://www.millennium-ark.net/News_Files/INFO_Files/Lye_Safety_Precautions.html

http://seasonalchef.com/appledehyd.htm

http://www.marketreport.com/preserves21.htm

http://www.cityblues.com/dryfood.htm

http://eagle.cc.ukans.edu/~mdpear/jayhawk.html

http://highlightpro.com/text.htm

http://www.kinderart.com/littles/pquilt.htm

Explore Books

• Prairie
• Pioneer
• Nature
• History

Sarah, Plain and Tall

• Patricia MacLachlan
• Kansas Prairie

Quilt-Block History of Pioneer Days

• Mary Cobb
• Pioneer Crafts

Prairie Born

• Dave Bouchard
• Canadian Prairie

Pioneer Workshop

• Judy Cole
• Mary Minturn
• Pioneer Crafts

Prairie Songs

• Pam Conrad
• Nebraska Prairie

Black-Eyed Susan

• Jennifer Armstrong
• Dakota Prairie

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

• Karen Cushman
• Gold Rush

Buffalo Thunder

• Patricia Wittmann
• Oregon Trail

Fun with Nature

• Plants
• Animals
• Nature

Gardening Wizardry for Kids

• L.Patricia Kite
• Gardening
• Nature

365 Nature Crafts & Activities

First Field Guide Wildflower

• National Audubon Society

Canoe Days

• Gary Paulsen
• Nature

Animals

• Tops & Bottoms
• Janet Stevens
• Plants
• Gardening

Weslandia

• Paul Fleischman
• Civilization
• Creativity
• Fantasy

http://eduscapes.com/ladders/ladders.html

Build a lesson

• Brainstorm pioneer & prairie topics
• Identify outcomes
• Locate 1-5 sites
• Create an activity
• Transform Activities

Creating WebQuests

• Some pioneers fought the prairie, while others lived with the prairie.

http://www.stbernard.org/WebQuest%20Activities/pioneer.html

http://inst.augie.edu/~jamounta/west/quest.htm

Introduction

• Dig In
• Motivation
• Sets the stage
• Provides background information

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/chavez/batquest/batquest.html

Brainstorm Intros

• Picture
• Quote
• Poem
• Situation
• Song

Task

Something doable & interesting

• series of questions
• summary to be created
• problem to be solved
• position to be debated
• creative work
• require thinking!

Information Resources

Specific, appropriate resources

• web documents
• experts available via Internet
• searchable databases on the net
• books and other documents
• real objects

Process

• List of activities
• Step-by-step instructions
• Timeline

Learning Advice

Describe how to organize info

• Guiding questions
• Directions to complete
• checklists, timelines
• concept maps
• cause-effect diagrams
• action plan

Evaluation

• Assess student work
• checklists
• rubrics

Conclusion

• Bring project to closure.
• Remind learners about what they've learned
• Encourage learners to extend the experience

Other Elements

• Roles to play
• Group collaboration guidelines
• Motivating scenario
• Teacher Resources

http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/chavez/batquest/teacher.html

 

Explore & Evaluate

• Explore a webquest
• Evaluate a webquest
• Create a webquest

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/bdodge/webquest/buildingblocks.html

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquestrubric.html

Brainstorm Topics

• Prairies & Pioneers
• quilts
• crafts
• plants
• animals
• Create a webquest

Developing Project Partnerships

• Although they often lived miles apart, pioneers relied on one another.

http://askanexpert.com/

http://www.vrd.org/locator/subject.html

http://www.gsn.org/project/index.html

http://www.eduplace.com/projects/how2.html

http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/join.htm

http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/

http://www.pitsco.com/p/Respages/collab.html

http://home.talkcity.com/academydr/nicknacks/NNindex.html

http://cleo.terc.edu/cleo/cleo-home.cfm

http://www.eduplace.com/hmco/school/projects/online.html

http://www.hmco.com/hmco/school/projects/index.html

Connect with Class

• Another
• county
• state
• country

http://www.epals.com

http://www.ks-connection.com/penpal/penpal.html

http://www.keypals.com/

Manage Projects

• Empower your students so they can survive on the cyber-prairie!

Build an environment

• Provide...
• A variety of tools
• A place to start
• An engaging, classroom environment

Provide support

• Step-by-step help sheets
• Each one, teach one
• Ask three before me

Create a headquarters

• Bulletin board
• Folders
• Website

Make it happen

• Focus on individual needs
• Keep it simple
• Find friends to help
• Make it real-world!
• Make it engaging!

Have Fun!

• Annette Lamb
• Newberys & the Net
• Building Treehouses for Learning