Please post ideas for our field trip in the comments below. Be sure to include your name and grade.
Possible Ideas to Get You Started:
Chicago Botanic Gardens
HUGE gardens to explore (Japanese Gardens with waterfalls and islands, prarie, rose gardens, greenhouses, etc.)
The Grove
Environmental education programs and life in early America
Forest Preserve
This involves exploring the forest, playing games in forest/fields, and possibly helping clear out invasive species like buckthorn and garlic mustard
Illinois Holocaust Museum
The Field Museum
What other ideas do you have? Please post them in the comments section.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Election Websites
Hello students!
Here are a few election websites that I'd like you to look through.
Here are a few election websites that I'd like you to look through.
GREAT resource to watch old advertisements of US presidential candidates.
videos and then analysis section—GREAT to use! This is the site we used to find our other advertisements.
http://projects.wsj.com/campaign-ads-2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Resources for 9/11 Research
Here are some resources to get you started on your research.
Articles
- A GREAT place to start (especially if you’re not sure what your topic is yet!). This covers most topics in a reflection 10 years after 9/11. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/news/september11/
- Different writer’s opinions on the ways we’ve changed as a country after 9/11 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/09/911-to-now-ways-we-have-changed.html
- An article on WAR as a response to 9/11 and how this has impacted our society and military http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-decade-after-the-911-attacks-americans-live-in-an-era-of-endless-war/2011/09/01/gIQARUXD2J_story.html
- Primary sources http://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/2011/09/teaching-about-september-11-using-primary-sources-from-library-of-congress/ (also an idea to compare 9/11 with Pearl Harbor)
- Primary sources http://eiu.edu/eiutps/911.php
Graphics
- Graphics of changes made after 9/11 to military budgets, Google Maps, and other parts of American life http://www.pbs.org/newshour/multimedia/911-change/index.html
Stories and Narratives
- “Shouting Across the Divide” from This American Life—a story of a Muslim-American student whose teacher gives an inappropriate lesson about 9/11 and the effects this has on her and her family http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/322/shouting-across-the-divide
- If you’d like to read along to the story (this will contain some typos—FYI) http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/322/transcript
- A collection of stories and opinions about life after 9/11 being different (and not so different) http://understandingamerica.publicradio.org/
- A teenager describes how she feels differently after 9/11 in her life (especially how she sees Muslims) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/speakout/us/july-dec11/9-11voiceAllegra.html
Plans for specific topics:
AIRPORT SECURITY (How has it changed? Is it working? Is it ethical?)
- Resources describing the trade-off between airport security and civil liberties (includes links to videos and articles) http://www.911memorial.org/sites/all/files/HI_Security%20vs%20Civil%20Liberties_1.pdf
- Article on dignity vs. security at airports: http://www.worldhum.com/print/item/features/post-9-11-airport-security-do-you-know-where-your-dignity-is-20090910/
- Article describing what a journalist was able to smuggle through security, questioning if the money we spend to increase security after 9/11 at airports is really working http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-things-he-carried/307057/
· How to Teach 9/11
- This is a good place to start and includes some thoughts from psychologists http://www.911memorial.org/talk-children-about-911
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