SKYPE/MULTI-MEDIA COLLABORATIONS BY UNIT FOR SOCIAL STUDIES
This year I have a class set of laptops and am looking to collaborate on each unit, creating interactive, interstate and international forums.
**Please describe any project ideas that you have for the unit. Underneath that, please include your contact information such as your name, email & twitter, school name, school location, school level with age in (parenthesis) and number of students you have to collaborate with. At the end please include your school website and a personal website if you have one.
EXAMPLE:
Project 1: Let's re-fight the political and philosophical ideas of the Civil War online using a Ning academic networking type of site. Last year, my students were divided in half into the North and South. While, focusing on the continued debate over federalism and who should have the power, the federal or state government, students defended their policitical philosophy with regard to the constitution, debated tariff issues and described and defended or opposed all of the events leading to the Civil War. Students set up profiles as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Jefferson Davis (and more) and argued the various points from their perpective.
Let's open this up to schools around the country! Please contact me at mannixlab@gmail.com to begin discussion on how we can put this together.
Contact: Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
****UNITS FOR COLLABORATION*****
Native Americans
Exploration
Colonization
Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
I would like to put three groups of classes together, one from the New England colonies (MA, CT, RI, NH), Middle colonies (myself and/or someone from NY, NJ, PA, DE) and a representative from the Southern colonies (VA, NC, SC, GA-ideally VA). Each group would research life in their own colonies and would be the expert group for ideas like government, daily life, famous people and religion. We would then share the information that we discovered through SKYP or DIM DIM a great interactive whiteboard where you can add files and powerpoints and websites.
Who wants to join?
Causes of the Revolutionary War
Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
I would like to collaborate with a class or classes from England to analyze how the Revolutionary War is taught both in American and in England. What are the similarities? What are the differences? How much time is spent on each? What is the textbook treatment? Is there any bias?
Revolutionary War
Project 1: Let's analyze similarities to modern day warfare, in areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Can comparisons be made? How was the dominant superpower dealt with militarily?
Contact: Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
Project 2: Let's examine the life of Benedict Arnold. To whom was he a hero? To whom was he a saint? Were his achievements in the Revloutionary War on behalf of the Americans overlooked by historians?
Any takers?
Contact: Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
Themes of the Constitution
The Bill of Rights
Early Presidents
Project 1: The Trail of Tears: Let's put together a collaborative project with a group of schools and some ancestors of the Cherokee Nation that was removed from their homeland.
Contact: Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
Project 2: The Mexican War: CALLING ALL SCHOOLS IN MEXICO--What is your perspective on the Mexican War? Did the United States trick you into fighting? How has the relationsihp between the United States and Mexico progressed or regressed from the Mexican War until now?
Contact: Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
Westward Expansion
Life in the North/South
Project 1: Let's re-fight the political and philosophical ideas of the Civil War online using a Ning academic networking type of site. Last year, my students were divided in half into the North and South. While, focusing on the continued debate over federalism and who should have the power, the federal or state government, students defended their policitical philosophy with regard to the constitution, debated tariff issues and described and defended or opposed all of the events leading to the Civil War. Students set up profiles as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Jefferson Davis (and more) and argued the various points from their perpective.
Let's open this up to schools around the country! Please contact me at mannixlab@gmail.com to begin discussion on how we can put this together.
Contact: Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
Project 2: Create and share podcasts where students describe by interviewing "characters" from the time peiod what life was like in the North or the South.
Contact: Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
Causes of the Civil War
Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
Project 1: Let's re-fight the political and philosophical ideas of the Civil War online using a Ning academic networking type of site. Last year, my students were divided in half into the North and South. While, focusing on the continued debate over federalism and who should have the power, the federal or state government, students defended their policitical philosophy with regard to the constitution, debated tariff issues and described and defended or opposed all of the events leading to the Civil War. Students set up profiles as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Jefferson Davis (and more) and argued the various points from their perpective.
Let's open this up to schools around the country! Please contact me at mannixlab@gmail.com to begin discussion on how we can put this together.
The Civil War
Brian Mannix, mannixlab@gmail.com, #mannixlab, Great Neck South Middle School, Great Neck, New York, Grade 7 (12-13 yrs), 4 groups of 24 students, www.greatneck.k12.ny.us, www.mannixlab.com
Project 1: Let's re-fight the political and philosophical ideas of the Civil War online using a Ning academic networking type of site. Last year, my students were divided in half into the North and South. While, focusing on the continued debate over federalism and who should have the power, the federal or state government, students defended their policitical philosophy with regard to the constitution, debated tariff issues and described and defended or opposed all of the events leading to the Civil War. Students set up profiles as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Jefferson Davis (and more) and argued the various points from their perpective.
Let's open this up to schools around the country! Please contact me at mannixlab@gmail.com to begin discussion on how we can put this together.
Reconstruction
Settling the West
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