Drawing the Frames of an empire

I see some real strengths in what you have created.  I like how you have worked in collaborative learning and students choice.  Students have choice in both what they are studying and what they are producing.  Something that may be improved is that you are presenting a lot of information in slides 4-6 right in between the sides where you inform students of what they are choosing from learning about and what they will be choosing to do.  I'm wondering if it might be better to put the information before the project details or after, rather than right in the middle? 

Something that I cam across recently and I am trying to work it into my practice is this TedTalk about Powerpoints. It's worth a watch. 

Thanks brian, your feedback always gold. I can't believe I have never come across this TED Talk before, I am always looking to make my presentations better. Thanks again.

Hayden:

Thanks for sharing, it's a great way to see if kids really understand what we are trying to get at. Do you have a rubric or scoring guide? I find that kids tend to be interested in how they will be assessed and it helps them to reach the standards we are looking for. 

Hayden, I think this is a great take on formalizing the "Draw the Frames" concept! Did students learn about the various empires first, or just select one to investigate for this activity?

Hayden Brown,

Thanks for sharing! What grade level are you teaching? I like the overall setup and would definitely echo some of the feedback below, perhaps making some slides a bit less dense in regards to information, but I’d be concerned that perhaps there might be a few too many things included in the requirements. I also tend to, perhaps to my detriment at times, feel that ‘less is more’ and would look the red list of items under ‘Defining an Empire,’ and try to slim it down a bit to something like this:

• Include the following:
  • Methods of control
  • At least 2-3 important ideas, events, & individuals
  • CCoT - how this empire fits into what has changed and stayed the same over time

This might be a bit less than what you would like to incorporate but could result in a higher quality of work. What are the things you care about the most for this assignment?

Thanks for the positive feedback. This is just the introduction to the project we only just looked at each frame in detail. They are year 10 students so have had colonial history up to WWI but many of them were excited to investigate something out of the range of the was the standard curriculum. 

We spend the rest of the lesson breaking out into groups and brainstorming what they wanted to produce as a team and who was going to take the lead on each frame. Next lesson they are going to begin their research using resources from the WH site, my collection plus additional resources they find.

Ben Tomlisson and I have done some of this with our College in the HS kids (World History Project is their textbook). Love what Hayden Brown brings to the table as well!

Here is the Padlet (not the best ones ever but for reference) : https://mountsihs.padlet.org/baginskij/a9tny5j3awn2tivw

Attached is the directions we gave out: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sGH7sh0q4-RBnWnRpBcfxDO4ku4sdL0wX3QZ6bCtrfg/edit?usp=sharing

Good advice from everyone has kept me focused on what's important. Here is my task sheet for the project. It contains a few pointers from all of you and keeps the main features I wanted to include. Thanks John Mason Brian Moore Anne Koschmider Curtis Greeley Ben Tomlisson

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Thanks, Joe. 

Hayden Brown,

This scoring guide looks great! I can definitely see some more of the focus in this one. Year 10 - what age group is that? I'd love to hear more about how this goes with your students once you get to try it out. Also, what model are you currently teaching? In-person? Hybrid?