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umm...guys
Melissa,
I think you deserve the bulk of the credit. Thanks for keeping us on track.
and ditto hooray for us!

Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processesusing technology. Students:
a. apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes.
group expression. c. c. use models
2. Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance,to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:
a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments
media and formats.d.formats.
d. contribute to
AASL (Library Media)
1.1.1 FollwFollow an inquiry-based in seeking knolwedgeknowledge in curricular rights of creatorrscreators and producers.
1.1.9 Collaborate with others to broaden and deepen understanding.
decisions, apply knoweldgeknowledge to new
2.1.2 Organize knoweldgeknowledge so that and apply knolwedgeknowledge to curriculularcurricular areas, real and visual literacuy,literacy, and technology products that experssexpress new understandings. members of oour democracticour democratic society.
3.1.3 Use writing and speaking skills to communicate new understanding effectively.
3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess.

Standards and Criteria for Success
Your performance needs to: Be convincing based on principles of economics, and what history has taught us are the necessities for societies to advance and thrive.

Your Your work will properly cited. The SLMS will judge your references; the I.T. teacher will judge your Google Sketch design, wikispace and QR Codes; and the World History Teacher will judge the remainder of your project.
Your product must meet the following standards:
GPS:

Situation The context you find yourself in is: Your previous village has been destroyed and you must ensure the survival of a group of 100 men, women and children at a new site.
The challenge involves dealing with: agriculture, city planning, geography, architecture, political science, philosophy, military defense, sanitation, health, commerce and psychology.
clearly labeled. EachTo each label you described and linklinked via QR
In order to: complete this you will need to learn about ancient civilization using print and online sources (your media specialist will direct you to appropriate sources). You will need to learn about QR CODES following this link for a brief explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_codes. You will need to create a wiki (the IT teacher will provide you with a tutorial in how to use this).
to develop:
So A wiki so that: when
Standards and Criteria for Success
Your performance needs to: Be convincing based on principles of economics, and what history has taught us are the necessities for societies to advance and thrive.

Your job is: To lead, govern, provide for and defend your people by building a village.
Audience Your clients are: The people in your village
class, your teacherWorld History and I.T. teacher, your library media specialist and your
You need to convince: The people of your village that you are a competent ruler who will ensure their survival.
Situation The context you find yourself in is: Your previous village has been destroyed and you must ensure the survival of a group of 100 men, women and children at a new site.
Standards and Criteria for Success
Your performance needs to: Be convincing based on principles of economics, and what history has taught us are the necessities for societies to advance and thrive.

Your work will be judged by: A detailed rubric including: quality of craftsmanship, creativity, understanding, supporting rationale, likelihood of your people's survival, spelling and grammar, quality of Google Sketch design, turning project in on time, mention of 2 ancient civilizations as historical examples, completed wikispace defending and explaining your decisions and positions, and adequate and appropriate research sources that are properly cited.
Your product must meet the following standards:
3.2.3 Demonstrate teamwork by working productively with others.
3.3.4 Create products that apply to authentic real-work contexts.


umm...guys
Wow - thank you for all the additions, everyone! Barbara, don't worry about the accidental "pinking"! And I agree with Amber, the QR codes sound very high-tech and I hadn't heard of them until now - nice idea! Thanks, Amber, for the GPS from World History. Despite a rough start, we came through. Hooray for us!

umm...guys
Congrat on graduation Barbara - I think we all got a little caught up with the end of the semester stuff and got behind. The ideas look wonderfully. The QR codes are awesome! Thanks

umm...guys
Wow! I ask a question and things explode! LOL That looks amazing ladies...I added a little and did include GPS from High School World History. I figured that this assignment could definitely bridge from a study of ancient civilizations, especially given the requirement to reference similarities and differences. I included religion for 2 reasons - it is specifically mentioned in the standards but it is also supremely important in the development of civilization (sorry - history teacher comes out...).
Barbara - congrats on graduation! And impressive with the QR codes. I have to admit I have never heard of these before that I know of!
Amber