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Unit III: Week 1: Act 2

Community Work: SHARING OUR WATERWAY HISTORIES

 

Summary: In this activity students share their findings about their local or regional waterway

Materials:

paper for writing

computer access

Classroom Management: You might arrange the students into teams for summarizing and presenting their work. Sharing summaries requires several steps: scanning any pictures, typing text into a computer, and posting them to one another on the neighborhood.

Activity Steps:

Make a room in the neighborhood and post your findings. You will need to make one room for your images and another for any long documents if you use the Neighborhood for the sharing.

or you might prefer to:

Make web pages featuring the autobiography of your river. You might prefer to make pages, and simply add your link to a Link Room in your neighborhood school building. For example, if your river was, say, the Hudson River, you might want to make a web page that presents the river and its history. You would focus on what has been carried up and down river and how. You might add something about how it became so polluted and how and when it has become cleaner. You might want to go way back in history and describe how it cut through rock. Beacon School , for example, might want to get a local musician like Pete Seeger to make an audio file for the web pages.

Consider other cultures. When you have everything ready to post, review the pieces from the point of view of the students in other parts of the world. Has your spelling been checked so that translation can happen easily? Is there anything that could be considered offensive?

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