Students will download images from the California Heritage Digital Media Access Project (Native American and Spanish), create pictures of Mexican Indepence heroes, and scan home photos to create a pictorial report on people in California before statehood and now!
Learning Objectives:
1. The student uses a variety of primary source materials to construct a visual multicultural product.
Lesson Objective:
1. The student will have a beginning exposure through a historical lens to the variety of groups (Native American, Spanish, mestizo, their own ethnic group) which have populated the area now called California.
2. Students will begin to have content to explore the concept of "immigration."
Strategy:
Students will learn to use the Web by completing a group instruction session. Students will use a storyboard to design their own project. Students will plan the project with input from a partner. Students will share the project with the class. The product will be placed in the student's portfolio.
Learning Activity
Grade Level
This project is appropriate for 3rd grade.
Materials
Computer with Kid Pix and Internet connection
Storyboard outline
Printer
Activities and Procedures
Complete the class Web tutorial
Use Storyboard outlines to plan project
Meet with partner to discuss project
Create Product
Web Site Resources
California Indian Museum and Cultural Center