Life Long Ago

Objective: 
Students will be search for information about life in Europe during the late 1800s and early 1900s and compile the information into a written report .

Time frame:
3 - 40 minute time periods

Procedure:
Collaborate with the school librarian.  Teach students how one can access information using books, CD Rom's and the internet. 

Discuss note taking and the revelence of jotting downimportant information.  Read through books, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. 

Introduce students to digital information available on CD Rom's and the internet.  See Technology Lesson 4, Searching the Internet.

For the final class time the students took all the information they had  gathered and compiled it into a written report.

Evaluation:
Were the students able to find information in the library?  Could they put that information into their own language so their peers could understand?  Is the information complete?

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