Multimedia Project Design

Project Title: The Road to the

White House

 

Grade Level: 7 & 8

Subject/Topic Area(s) Social Studies (American History)

 

Designed By: Arlett Hartie

Date: August 6, 2000

School District:

Prince George’s County

School: Hyattsville Middle School

Goal: The goal of this project is to help students improve their MSPAP scores in writing to persuade and in social studies political systems. These goals will be achieved while students follow the steps taken by candidates that lead to the White House, and by completing follow up activities that include further research, a debate, a quiz, and a letter to a newspaper editor

 

 

Content Standards: By the end of 8th grade students know and are able to do everything required at earlier grades and are able to:

        1. Explain the rights of individuals as expressed in the…Constitution, and

The Bill of Rights…

        1. Describe historical events in the United States that resulted in

Constitutional amendments;

        1. Analyze the influence of the media on political life in the United States including recognizing bias in reporting, analyzing, and editorializing
        2. Explain how various groups provide opportunities for citizens to

Participate in the political process and ways in which individuals and

groups can advance or impede political decisions.

      1. Write to persuade an intended audience by selecting an appropriate form that
  • Makes a clear and knowledgeable judgment
  • Supports arguments with detailed evidence, examples, and reasoning, differentiating between evidence and opinion
  • Refutes counter arguments

 

 

Project Summary: This computer-mediated multimedia project allows students to follow the step-by-step procedures taken by candidates for president, from the moment of declaring to election day.

 

 

 

 

Objectives/Desired Results (What will the learners understand as a result of this project?)

Students will incorporate organizational writing strategies while using a word processor to generate a letter articulating the three amendments to the Constitution that gave black men, women and people eighteen and older the right to vote.

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Plans for Facilitation:

  1. prepare materials, tools & resources
  2. conduct a pre-assessment to evaluate:

. students’ knowledge of the above Maryland Standards,

. students’ use of the computer to access power point

. students’ use of Microsoft word to write a letter to persuade to a newspaper editor

 

 

 

 

Instructional Resources:

Power point presentation, the internet

(http://home.netscape.com/escapes/search/ntsrchrnd-3html) ,

newspapers, magazines, TV and radio news stories

Type of Assessment Used (e.g. observations, work samples, electronic discussions, dialogues)

Observations, quiz, letter to an editor, cooperative group

participation

 

Scoring tool (e.g. rubric) to be used for evaluation. Be as specific as possible.

4 -Well written letter, with clearly stated opinions and supporting details

3 –Well-written letter with opinion and supporting details fairly stated.

2 – Letter fairly written with opinions or supporting details not clearly stated

1 – Letter poorly written, opinion and supporting details not obvious

and/or views not clearly expressed.