1. You are to find a group of four students that you feel comfortable
working with. Try finding a group that you have not worked with yet, a
group that has a mix of boys and girls, or a group that will benefit you to
work with.
2. Find an area in the computer lab that you would like to work in. There
needs to be four computers in a row, so you can work together but have your
own computer in front of you.
3. As a group, read the descriptions of each investigator. You will have
to leave this page that you are on now and go to the home page to read the
descriptions of the investigators. All of you do this together. Click on
an investigator and read the role aloud while the others follow along.
Continue this process until your group has read about all four of the
investigators.
4. Discuss with your group which role each student is going to take. If
two students want the same investigator, then you are going to have to come
to a mutual agreement as to who will take what role.
5. Now it is time to work independently for a little while. On your own
computer, go to the "Home" page and click on your investigator. Again, read
the role of this investigator.
6. Research the particular events or topic related to your investigator.
Look for the information that has been stated. Take notes.
7. While researching your particular event or topic, find a picture that
can be printed.
8. When all students are done independently researching, you are going to
come back together to discuss these event or topics. Begin by each
investigator taking a turn and summarizing their assigned important event or
topic in Indiana history. Explain these events or topic to your group
partners and answer any questions that may be asked. Make sure you relate
to you classmates the importance of the event or topic in Indiana's history.
9. After all four investigators have explained their researched
events or topic, as a group you must compare their importance. Determine
which event or topic in history was the most imortant all the way down to
the least important. Compile a list numbered 1-8, with 1 being the most
imortant and 8 being the least important.
10. Review this list again. Do all of you agree on this list of importance?
11. Now that you all agree on the list of importance, you are to create
a posterboard that depicts the events or topics in order of most important
to least important.
12. Write the words "Indiana History" at the top of the posterboard. Start
with your number 1 most important event or topic and paste the
picture of that event and label it with the name of the event or topic.
13. Continue creating the poster by pasting the pictures in order and
labeling the events or topics until you get down to the very last one.
14. As a group, come up with a one line summary that supports why you
placed the first event or topic as the most important and the last event or
topic as the least important.
15. Your group will now show the posterboard to the class. Pick a
spokesperson for your group. A student may volunteer for this position, or
you will have to decide as a group.
16. Explain the important events or topics in the order from most to least
important. Give your supporting statements as to why you picked the
paricular event or topic to be the most important and why you picked the
particular event or topic to be the least imortant.
17. You have successfully completed your investigation. Congratulations!
