Created By: Kay Grabow, Thomas Paine Elementary School (Urbana, IL)
Grade Level: 4th
Content Area: Social Studies
Database Integration: Students will search the TDC database for images which illustrate aspects of school life from the time of the historic Indians of Illinois to the present.
Activity that Meets this Standard
|State Goal 16: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of Illinois the United States and other nations||
Students will research, and choose for study, individuals who have made a significant contribution to the history of Illinois. They will place these individuals on a time line.
Students will research information about what school was like in the time and place of each of the selected individuals.
|State Goal 18: Understand social systems with an emphasis on the United States.||
Students will develop a list of questions about schools. They will research the time in history of each of the individuals they have selected in order to answer as many questions as they can about the schools of the time.
They will make comparisons of schools from various times and locations within what is now Illinois.
Computer with Internet access, print materials for history reference, scanner, Kraft paper for making time line, clothing items which approximate that of individuals studied.
Each student should be able to give at least one fact about the individual he represents, and at least two facts about the schools of the time and location. Additionally, he should be able to compare and contrast the school of his chosen time/location with one other.