Presidents+Across+Time

Presidents Across Time


 * Topic**-Presidents across time
 * Grade level**-10th
 * Course**- US History

Introduction: Understanding the personalities and histories of each of the United States Presidents is a central way to learn about their time in history and the administrations that they lead. Your task is to choose a president throughout the course of the United States and create several different artifacts related to that particular president. The president you choose must have been president prior to 1974.
 * Standards**- Common core: Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research; Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically; Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.


 * Brainstorm your president**-Your first task is to brainstorm what you already know about the president you choose using a the graphic organizing tool/ mind mapping tool [|bubbl.us]. In this mind map you will create a visual organizer that displays what you already know about the president you choose. This can include when he served, his vice-president/ cabinet members, important events that happened during his presidency, where he is from, or any other relevant information that YOU already know about him. This is not to be researched information.

[|Click here to see an example of a Mind Map made in bubble.us.]


 * Give us a tour**-Next you will use [|google earth] to create a virtual tour that marks key locations in this president's administration. These locations should include where they were born including the year, where they died including the year and the cause of death, where they served in any other government capacity (this can be the current capital of the particular state), a location of any major battle they were involved in (if the president was in the military, if not omit this step) and locations of any major documents, legislation, or treaties they were involved in examples include Declaration of Independence, Treaty of Paris. For each of these locations be sure to include a brief description of what happened here and how your president was involved. Be sure to give the proper credit to your source of this information by placing the website/name of text in the description area.

[|Click here to see an example of a google earth tour] (the file is also attached to this wiki)

[|Click here to see a sample Pixton comic.]
 * Comic relief**-The next step is to make a presidential comic. You will use the tool [|Pixton] to create a comic that shows your president in a famous scene that he is famous/ remembered for. This could be a speech, a battle, a death, or any other scene you find in your research that you feel is memorable. I am aware that the characters will not be exact but what I am concerned about is creativity and historical accuracy. Be sure to label the date in the first bubble and add text where appropriate. Feel free to be creative with this one but maintain historical accuracy.


 * Slide in some more information**-Your final task will be to create a presentation using [|SlideRocket]. You will have several different criteria to include in this particular presentation. You must include at least 3 pictures of your president with descriptions, one quote said by your particular president, the name and a picture of his first lady, the years of his presidential term, his Vice-President, and a link or an embedded video that relates to your president in some way such as a short biography or even a clip of that president from television or video. Anything beyond these criteria is up to you. Be sure to make sure it is professional looking and without spelling and grammar errors. Feel free to add any other information that will help give others a good picture of what your chosen president was like.

[|Click here to see a sample SlideRocket presentation.]

When you complete all of the necessary steps to finish your learning unit check the [|rubric] to be sure you have completed all of the steps to obtain the grade you wish to receive.

Once checked against the rubric post all of the elements of the project to the [|class learning unit one blog]in the comments section. Follow the example on the page.