The Process (webquest home http://www.sitesbysheridan.com/webquest/index.html)
There are three main parts to this report to the President:
Phase 1: Gaining Background Knowledge
"Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations." (Faith Baldwin)
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Before becoming your role, check that you and everyone in your group understands that throughout most of history women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women's most significant professions. In the 20th century, however, women in most nations won the right to vote and increased their educational and job opportunities. Perhaps most important, they fought for and to a large degree accomplished a reevaluation of traditional views of their role in society.
Venn diagrams help you describe and compare the elements and characteristics of items. To create a Venn, you can ask yourself...
In classroom groups, complete a VENN diagram representing each one's roles (historian, sociologist, fashion designer, or media mogul) about what you already know about events, people, situations, ideas, and concepts around women's changing rights over the time. Compare the elements and characteristics of items you brainstormed. Your group may choose to Test Your Women’s History I.Q.
Phase 2: Collecting Information
Now that you have shared what you already know, you have a good idea of what you need to learn for this project. This is where you take on one of the roles and explore the related Internet links. Have fun. Look for interesting things, important things, and surprising things.
1. Choose a role (one person per role or pairs).
2. Surf the links related to your role.
3. Follow your interest and what strikes you.
4. "Collect" (copy and paste) text or images from the Web to your personal digital notebook ( whether M.S. Office, Appleworks, Simple Text,. Notepad or an HTML authoring tool)
5. Note the location (URL) of each thing you borrow.
Roles:
* Historian-
"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity."
Cicero
Who
What
When
Where
Why
In what kind of documents and primary sources is the history of women kept?
What major events mark changing roles for women overtime?
Imagine you lived during a decade of the 1800-1985 time period, record a diary of twelve events of the time.
Do we gain a better understanding of our own lives and times by understanding history?
* Sociologist
Family Structure
Folklore
Profiling People
What cultural adaptations have women made over time?
What conflicts have caused major shifts in women's roles?
How have women contributed to home and business environments?
What books, magazines, poetry, and other writings have women contributed to?
Links: Sociologist
* Fashion designer
Clothing
Hairstyles
Designing Clothing
Crafting Jewelry
What clothing, jewelry, and hair styles have women worn over time?
What trends have been recorded in clothing and other fashions?
Links: Fashion Designer Links
Media mogul
Movies
Television
Software
Radio
Print Media
Process Guide #5: Viewing Photographs
How does the role of women in past media (radio, television, advertising, movies, software) presentations compare with that role today? Supply evidence of gender gaps in any media today.
Phase 3: Creating Learning Products: Your 'Glass Slippers Just Won't Do" web site
Now that your teams have collected information, graphics, and sound to help answer the Glass Slippers Just Won't Do Big Questions and your role questions, it's time to meet the challenge of extending and refining your thinking. This is achieved by creating a web site slide show with students from other teams who share your role. In your new team:
1. Work together to answer the Big Questions for this webquest and for your role.
2. As a team build your web page(s) report.
As a team, select, add, edit, and re-edit your choices of text, graphics, and sound that best inform Congress and the President that women's roles have or are changing with time. Remember to record the URL's of the sites and print sources from which you've borrowed in a web bibliography page.
3. Regularly consult the Project Rubric and note the rubric for your final grade.
4. As a team, present your web report to your classmates, and the President and Congress of the United States.
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