WebQuest

Here is my WebQuest.

http://dev-ia.usu.edu/viewproject.php?project=ia:8565

Cameras and Photoshop

I love the idea of having cameras in a classroom.

It would really bring things to life.

And it was lots of fun to play with my picture and add different elements. I enjoyed it very much.

And I think for kids, it will be really fun and they will remember whatever activity we use with cameras, because it is so unique.

Here is my playing around with photoshop:
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Standards and Weblinks

Fifth Graders

___Standards___

Social Studies Standard 4:  Students will understand the 19th century was a time of incredible change for the United States, including geographic expansion, constitutional crisis, and economic growth

Educational Tech Standard 7:  Use telecommunications and on-line recourses to participate in collaborative problem-solving activities to develop solutions or products for audiences inside and outside the classroom. 

Language Arts Standard 1:  Students develop language for the purpose of effectively communicating through speaking, viewing, and presenting.

___Web Links___

I found a lot of great websites for Ellis Island.  I found some good ones and I found some horrible ones.  Here are some of the good ones that I found.

Here is an interactive tour of Ellis Island

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm

I like this one, because it has pictures and captions for each of the pictures.  It is a good resource for students to see the pictures.  It is organized well and very brief to keep students' attention.

http://www.ellisisland.org/quizzes/quiz_a.asp

I really like this quiz.  It's just about the United States, and it would be cool for the students to take this and explain to students that immigrants had to pass this sometimes to live here.  And maybe use it as like, oh, you didn't make it.  And narrow down people.

http://www.ellisilsland.org/immexp/wseix_2_3.asp?

This website is cool.  It shows stories of six different immigrants and their personal stories.  If I have 6 different groups, I could have them each do one different person and they can present their story to the class. 

I found a lot of really cool websites.

Some other cool ones that I found are

http://www.history.com/content/ellisisland/timeline

http://www.ellisisland.org/photoalbums/ellis_island_photo_album.asp