Project Launch!

On Monday, October 14th we will be launching our first project! Please read below to learn more about what your learner will be doing for the project, and how you will support them!

Dear Learners and Families,

For your project, you will become a member of our Living History Museum! You will research and prepare a speech, an artifact, and take on the role of a historical figure or community member at our Presentation of Learning (POL) that will take place on Friday, November 15th from 12:00pm-1:00pm in The Quartz Hill Library.

As you prepare for your Living History POL, you will be thinking about our driving question: How have people from the past affected our world today? You will choose a historical figure or community member from a certain time period, era, or movement (depending on the grade level). As you take on the role of this historical figure, you will create a speech, an artifact that represents you and/or your accomplishments, and even dress up so you can take on this role during our Living History Museum! This will be a 4 week project:

Week 1: Project Launch & Biography research

Week 2: Speech writing

Week 3: Choosing an Artifact & Planning

Week 4: POL Prep & POL

We will be discussing the different elements of your project in class every week, so be sure to join us on Zoom! You will also be graded on your project using the rubric attached.

This project will focus on following California Content Standards for History Social Science for your child’s grade level. Please refer to your child(ren)'s grade level below to know the focus of their specific project:

TK/K: Students match simple descriptions of work that people do and the names of related jobs at the school, in the local community, and from historical accounts.

1st Grade: Understand the ways in which American Indians and immigrants have helped define Californian and American culture.

2nd Grade: Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride).

3rd Grade: Describe the lives of American heroes who took risks to secure our freedoms (e.g., Anne Hutchinson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr.)

4th Grade: Analyze the impact of twentieth-century Californians on the nation’s artistic and cultural development, including the rise of the entertainment industry (e.g., Louis B. Meyer, Walt Disney, John Steinbeck, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, John Wayne).

5th Grade: Describe the views, lives, and impact of key individuals during this period [American Revolution] (e.g., King George III, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams).

Identify the different roles women played during the Revolution (e.g., Abigail Adams, Martha Washington, Molly Pitcher, Phillis Wheatley, Mercy Otis Warren).

6th Grade: Analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Greece, and Rome. Influential historical figures from these regions include Plato, Ramses II, King Tutankhamun, Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), Confucius, Cyrus the Great, Julius Caesar, Pythagoras, etc.

7th Grade: (Middle Ages & Early Modern Time) Detail advances made in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering, and the understanding of human anatomy and astronomy (e.g., by Dante Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni, Johann Gutenberg, William Shakespeare).

Understand the significance of the new scientific theories (e.g., those of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton) and the significance of new inventions (e.g., the telescope, microscope, thermometer, barometer).

8th Grade: (U.S. History) Discuss entrepreneurs, industrialists, and bankers in politics, commerce, and industry (e.g., Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Leland Stanford, Levi Straus, Samuel Morse, Nathaniel Bowditch, John Deere, Charles Goodyear, Elias Howe, Cyrus McCormick).

Learners can be given a list of historical figures they may choose from, or they may choose a different historical figure that aligns with their content standard.

Learners will complete assignments each week, which will be posted an uploaded onto Seesaw. These assignments will assist the learners in preparing for their project. Their first assignment will be choosing a historical figure or community member (aligned with their grade level standard) and completing research on this person.

All learners will need your guidance and support with choosing who their project will be about, as well as how to properly research. We will give guidance and mini lessons during zoom as well. :)

From,

Your iLead AV Exploration Team 💙