Recreating Me, Back in History

Designed especially for you by your teachers, Mrs. Marshall and Ms. Bluemel

Introduction

This Web Quest has been developed so that you, a child of the 21st century, who eats microwave popcorn, roller blades, wears blue jeans and a T-shirt, can try on the life of a Pioneer or Native American child back in the 19th century.

What did you wear?

What did you like to eat?

Describe your home.

Did you have any fun?

What were your jobs?

Were there any problems you had to solve?

Task

Your task is to recreate yourself as either a Pioneer boy, Pioneer girl, Native American boy, or a Native American girl, and to then develop a presentation that introduces your 19th century self to your 21st century classmates!

Presentation Requirements

1. Create an eight slide Power Point presentation to introduce your 19th century self to the class.

2. Create and explain a Venn diagram that illustrates the similarities and differences between your real self of today and your recreated self of yesteryear.

3. Dress in clothing appropriate to your character while giving your presentation.

4. Demonstrate a toy or game you might have used.

5. Share a food item you might have eaten.

6. Show the video you and your partners made of your characters meeting for the first time.

Process

1. First you must make a big decision. You must choose to be either a Native American boy, Native American girl, Pioneer boy, or a Pioneer girl. You will then need to learn all you can about the everyday life of the child you will become.

2 Use the web sites listed below to gather information about your new identity. What were you like as a child in the 19th century. Print a copy of the chart below to help you organize your findings.

3. Find a partner who created an identity different from yours. For example, if you became a pioneer select a Native American, or if you became a Native American select a pioneer. Work together to write a short skit depicting your characters' first meeting. Use the digital video camera on the tripod to film your skit.

3 Use all of the information you have found to create your presentation outlined above. Enlist the help and advice of your 21st century family as you complete items three, four, and five in your presentation.

	CLOTHING	FOOD	SHELTER	TOYS & GAMES	TOOLS	PROBLEMS
PIONEER GIRL	.	.	.	.	.	.
PIONEER BOY	.	.	.	.	.	.
NATIVE AMERICAN GIRL	.	.	.	.	.	.
NATIVE AMERICAN BOY	.	.	.	.	.	.

RESOURCES

Native American General Links

Native American Clothing

Food

Shelter

Toys and Games

Native American Resource Books

Sioux
    Bonvillain, Nancy. The Santee Sioux
    Dominic, Gloria. Brave Bear and the Ghosts : A Sioux Legend
    Hicks, Peter. The Sioux
    Landau. Elaine. The Sioux
    Lund, Bill.   The Sioux
    McGovern, Ann. If You Lived With the Sioux Indians
    McLaughlin, Marie L. Myths and Legends of the Sioux
    Nicholson, Robert. The Sioux
    Osinski, Alice.   The Sioux

Pueblo
    Arnold, Caroline. The Ancient Cliff Dwellers of Mesa Verde
    Cory, Steven. Pueblo Indian
    Fisher, Leonard Everett. Anasazi
    Flanagan, Alice K. The Pueblos: A True Book
    McDermott, Gerald. Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale
    Peterson, David. The Anasazi
    Powell, Suzanne. The Pueblos
    Warren, Scott. Cities in the Sand : The Ancient Civilizations of the Southwest
    Yue, Charlotte. The Pueblo

Monacan
    Egloff, Keith. The Early Indians of Virginia.
    Vertical File folder. The Monacan Indians
     Waldman, Carl. Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes.

Pioneer General Links

Pioneer History

Pioneer Life

Pioneers

Pioneers' Stories

Westward Movement

Pioneer Information

Toys & Games

Pioneer Entertainment

Pioneer Games

Pioneer Toys and Games

Food

Pioneer Meals

Pioneer Recipes

Shelters

Pioneer Homes

Homes of Pioneers

Clothes

Pioneer Clothing

Pioneer Dress

Books About Pioneers

Colonial America - cooperative learning activities (Scholastic)
Colonial American Activity Book (Edupress)
Frontier American Activity Book (Edupress)
Westward Ho! Thematic Unit - Intermediate (Teacher Created Materials, Inc.)
They Left a Legacy (A local history written by Peggy Smith-Hake, St. Elizabeth, MO)
Pioneer Families of Miller County (Peggy Smith-Hake)
Math Excursions 2 (Math Learning Center)
Quilt Connections (Carson Dellosa Publishing Co.)
The Mailbox Feb/Mar 1997 issue (The Education Center)
Geo Safari card #6528, The Wild West series
Historic Crafts and Skills (A Missouri Department of Conservation publication)
Patchwork Math I and Patchwork Math II
Books used in our reading center
Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman (Scholastic)
Life in the Old West - Wagon Train - Bobbie Kalman (Crabtree Publishing Co.)
Life in the Old West - Life on the Trail
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, Paul Erickson (Puffin Books)
Young Explorers Series - The Corner Store & Long Ago Children (Modern Curriculum Press)
The Young Voyager, Hoobler and Bachem (McGraw Hill)
When I Was Young in the Mountains, Pylant & Goode (E.P. Dutton)
Miss Rumphius, Barbara Cooney (Puffin Books)
Hattie and the Wild Waves, Barbara Cooney (Scholastic) Dakota Dugout, Ann Turner (Aladdin Books McMillan)
The Talking Eggs, San Souci (Scholastic)
Black Beauty - based on the novel by Anna Sewell (A Golden Book)
Georgia Music, Griffin & Stevenson (Mulberry Books)
Peppe the Lamplighter, Elisa Bartone (Scholastic)
Just Plain Fancy, Patricia Polacco (Dell Publishing)
Abe Lincoln's Hat, Bremmer (A Step Into Reading Book - Scholastic)
Nettie's Trip South, Ann Turner (Scholastic)
If You Lived in Colonial Times, Ann McGovern (Scholastic)
A River Ran Wild, Lynne Cherry (Harcourt Brace & Co)
The Quilt Story, Tony Johnston & Tomi dePaola (Scholastic)
Aurora Means Dawn, Scot Russell Sanders (Bradbury Press)

Evaluation Rubric

	Beginning 0 points	Developing 1 point	Accomplished 2 points
Create an eight slide Power Point presentation to share with the class.	Slide show is incomplete and does not clearly portray recreated character.	Slide show is complete but does not give an adequate description of the character.	Slide show is complete and clearly portrays the recreated character.
Create and explain a Venn diagram that illustrates seven or more similarities and differences between your real self of today and your recreated self of yesteryear.	Venn diagram is incomplete (four or fewer comparisons) and lacking insightful comparison.	Venn diagram is incomplete (five or six comparisons) and demonstrates some insightful comparison.	Venn diagram is complete and demonstrates insightful comparison.
Dress in clothing appropriate to your character while giving your presentation.	Outfit is not historically accurate	Outfit is somewhat historically accurate	Outfit is historically accurate
Demonstrate a toy or game you might have used.	Toy or tool is not historically accurate	Toy or tool is somewhat historically accurate.	Toy or tool is historically accurate.
Share a food item you might have eaten.	Food item is not historically accurate	Food item is somewhat historically accurate.	Food item is historically accurate.

Video skit	Video is incomplete and does not demonstrate an understanding of students' characters.	Video is complete but does not demonstrate adequate understanding of the students' characters.	Video is complete and clearly demonstrates students' understanding of their character.
Presentation	Student does not speak clearly or maintain eye contact. They do not demonstrate an understanding of their character.	Student speaks somewhat clearly and has adequate eye contact and communicates an adequate understanding of their character.	Student speaks clearly with good eye contact and communicates an understanding of their character.

Recreating Me, Back in History

Designed especially for you by your teachers, Mrs. Marshall and Ms. Bluemel

Introduction

This Web Quest has been developed so that you, a child of the 21st century, who eats microwave popcorn, roller blades, wears blue jeans and a T-shirt, can try on the life of a Pioneer or Native American child back in the 19th century.

What did you wear?

What did you like to eat?

Describe your home.

Did you have any fun?

What were your jobs?

Were there any problems you had to solve?

Task

Your task is to recreate yourself as either a Pioneer boy, Pioneer girl, Native American boy, or a Native American girl, and to then develop a presentation that introduces your 19th century self to your 21st century classmates!

Presentation Requirements

1. Create an eight slide Power Point presentation to introduce your 19th century self to the class.

2. Create and explain a Venn diagram that illustrates the similarities and differences between your real self of today and your recreated self of yesteryear.

3. Dress in clothing appropriate to your character while giving your presentation.

4. Demonstrate a toy or game you might have used.

5. Share a food item you might have eaten.

6. Show the video you and your partners made of your characters meeting for the first time.

Process

1. First you must make a big decision. You must choose to be either a Native American boy, Native American girl, Pioneer boy, or a Pioneer girl. You will then need to learn all you can about the everyday life of the child you will become.

2 Use the web sites listed below to gather information about your new identity. What were you like as a child in the 19th century. Print a copy of the chart below to help you organize your findings.

3 Use all of the information you have found to create your presentation outlined above. Enlist the help and advice of your 21st century family as you complete items three, four, and five in your presentation.

RESOURCES

Native American General Links

Native American Clothing

Food

Shelter

Toys and Games

Native American Resource Books

Pioneer General Links

Toys & Games

Food

Shelters

Clothes

Books About Pioneers

Evaluation Rubric

Beginning

0 points

Developing

1 point

Accomplished

2 points

Create an eight slide Power Point presentation to share with the class.

Slide show is incomplete and does not clearly portray recreated character.

Slide show is complete but does not give an adequate description of the character.

Slide show is complete and clearly portrays the recreated character.

Create and explain a Venn diagram that illustrates seven or more similarities and differences between your real self of today and your recreated self of yesteryear.

Venn diagram is incomplete (four or fewer comparisons) and lacking insightful comparison.

Venn diagram is incomplete (five or six comparisons) and demonstrates some insightful comparison.

Venn diagram is complete and demonstrates insightful comparison.

Dress in clothing appropriate to your character while giving your presentation.

Outfit is not historically accurate

Outfit is somewhat historically accurate

Outfit is historically accurate

Demonstrate a toy or game you might have used.

Toy or tool is not historically accurate

Toy or tool is somewhat historically accurate.

Toy or tool is historically accurate.

Share a food item you might have eaten.

Food item is not historically accurate

Food item is somewhat historically accurate.

Food item is historically accurate.

Video skit

Video is incomplete and does not demonstrate an understanding of students' characters.

Video is complete but does not demonstrate adequate understanding of the students' characters.

Video is complete and clearly demonstrates students' understanding of their character.

Presentation

Student does not speak clearly or maintain eye contact. They do not demonstrate an understanding of their character.

Student speaks somewhat clearly and has adequate eye contact and communicates an adequate understanding of their character.

Student speaks clearly with good eye contact and communicates an understanding of their character.