Transcript Open-ended Project

CREATE YOUR OWN PROJECT
Your task is to create your own project.
 You and your group members will create a
unique project that uses all of the skills, talents,
and abilities of the members of the group.
 This project is due June 7th. There will be no
extensions.

RULES

Here are the rules:

Your project must be educational
You must provide an education objective – what you want
your audience to know, or be able to do, after they’ve seen
your project
 You must provide an assessment for what your audience
learns


Your project must involve presentation in some way

It does not need to be an oral presentation – presentation is
anything that visually or orally provides information
You must plan a project that will use all of your
available class time to complete – think big!
 You must provide an APA-cited summary and
reference page summarizing the research that you
did for this project

HISTORICAL SKILLS

Your project must involve these four historical
skills:
Presentational – already built in
 Critical thinking – your project must do more than
hand back information, it must process the
information and make an interpretation
 Spatial thinking – your project must involve
something about how human beings can interact with
the world around them
 Chronological thinking – your project must involve
the passage of time and its impact on human beings

HISTORICAL SKILLS - SUGGESTIONS
Chronological Thinking 
Compare present and past events to evaluate the
consequences of past decisions and to apply lessons learned.

Analyze how change occurs through time due to shifting
values and beliefs as well as technological advancements and
changes in the political and economic landscape.

Construct various forms of geographic representations to
show the spatial patterns of physical and human
phenomena.
Relate current events to the physical and human
characteristics of places and regions.
Spatial Thinking

Critical Thinking
Presentational Skills

Distinguish valid arguments from false arguments when
interpreting current and historical events.

Evaluate sources for validity and credibility and to detect
propaganda, censorship, and bias.

Take a position on a current public policy issue and support it
with historical evidence, reasoning, and constitutional
analysis in a written and/or oral format.
SOME EXAMPLES

Some examples Mr. White imagined:
Plan the production of a new, un-filmed Young
Indiana Jones episode, and film/perform it
 Create and perform a narrated, interpretive dance
regarding an historical issue of this time period
 Plan, market, and present a proposal for an historical
amusement/theme park
 Plan, create, and market a series of children’s toys to
get them interested in the study of history

Objective – 12 points total
The project’s objective is stated
clearly, and has a valuable
historical aim.
Excellent – 6-5 points
The project’s objective is stated
clearly, and has a valuable historical
aim.
Good – 4-2 points
Poor – 1-0 points
The project’s objective is stated
The project’s objective is very unclear,
vaguely, or may lack in historical value. and/or it may lack historical value.
The project’s assessment is valid, The project’s assessment is valid,
The project’s assessment may lack
The project’s assessment gives little to
challenging, and tied to the
challenging, and tied to the project’s slightly in challenge, or its relevance to no valid challenge, and/or is completely
project’s objective.
objective.
the project’s objective.
irrelevant to the project’s objective.
Support – 12 points total
Excellent – 6-5 points
The evidence used in the project is All evidence used in the project is
strong and effective.
strong and effective.
Good – 4-2 points
Most evidence used in the project is
strong and effective
Poor – 1-0 points
Little or no evidence used in the project
is strong or effective.
The evidence used in the project is All evidence used in the project is
credible, and comes from valuable credible, and comes from valuable
sources.
sources.
Most or some of the evidence used in Little to none of the evidence used in
the project is credible, and comes
the project is credible or from valuable
from valuable sources.
sources.
Technique – 12 points total
Excellent – 6-5 points
Good – 4-2 points
Poor – 1-0 points
The project shows evidence of
The entire project shows evidence of The project shows generally effective The project shows a lack of effective
effective planning and execution. effective planning and execution.
planning and execution.
planning and execution.
The project uses all of its available The project uses all of its available
The project makes a generally good
resources to accomplish its
resources to accomplish its objective. use of its available resources to
objective
accomplish its objective.
The project makes poor use of its
resources in accomplishing its objective.
Peer/Teacher Review – 10 points
total
Required Elements – 6 points
each (24 total)
Presentation – 6
points
APA-cited Summary – 6
points
Objective – 6 points
Assessment – 6 points