| Project
Title: |
Creating
an Irish Children's Museum |
| Student's
Names and I.D. Numbers: |
Karen
Ivers- 01060104
Catherine
Shevlin- 01004191 |
| Subject
Area and Level: |
History
Strand:
Continuity and Change over Time
Strand
Unit: Literature, Arts, Crafts and Culture
Level:
Fifth and Sixth Class. |
| Teaching
and Learning Objectives: |
That the
child will be enabled to: |
| |
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develop an understanding of change
and continuity by exploring similarities and differences between the past,
present and future and between different periods in the past.
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examine and use critically a wide range
of historical evidence
websites, photographs, memories
of older people, reference books, software, stories and songs, school buildings,
school records and documents, artefacts: toys, games.
-
select and organise historical information
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communicate their understanding of
the past in a variety of ways
oral language, writing, drama,
art work, designing, constructing, reporting, planning.
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develop some skills in the location
and selection of evidence
-
ask questions
-
make simple deductions from evidence
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develop higher order thinking and questioning
skills
|
| Skills
and Concepts development: |
Working
as a historian
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Time and Chronology
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Change and Continuity
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Using evidence
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Synthesis and
Communication
-
Empathy
|
| Linkage: |
Strand:
Continuity and Change over Time
Strand
Unit:
Strand: Local
Studies
Strand
Unit:
-
Schools.
-
Games and
pastimes in the Past.
-
My Locality
Through the Ages.
Strand: Life,
Society, Work and Culture in the Past
Strand
Unit:
-
Life in Ireland
in the 19th/20th Century.
-
Life in Ireland
since the 1950s.
Strand: Eras
of Change and Conflict
Strand
Unit:
|
| Integration: |
English
-
Oral Language Development
-
Reading Non-Fiction
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Writing Non-Fiction (Invitation,
Interview questions)
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Summarising
-
Questionning
Gaeilge
Maths
Geography
-
Mapwork (making a plan of a building)
-
Planning for the future
-
Planning a trail
-
Schools in other countries
Science
-
Design and Make (future toy, future
game)
Drama
-
Role Play ( Still image, Dramatic
interpretation of school in past)
Visual Arts
-
Construction (Future toy, future
game)
-
Drawing (Sketching artefacts)
-
Clay (Claymation)
Music
-
Listening and Responding to Music
( songs of the past and present)
-
Composing (music for the future)
SPHE
-
Myself
-
Myself and my family
-
Myself and Others
-
Myself as a Citizen
|
| WebQuest
Overview |
In this WebQuest, the pupils are
asked to design a uniquely Irish children's museum.
We chose this topic because it
is very child-centred and relates to a child's life-experience. We feel
that it will be more interesting to the children because it relies extensively
on their own knowledge and experience and that of the people who are close
to them.
There are three broad tasks involved,
two of which are whole class co-operative tasks. The other, the largest
of the tasks, involves collaborative group-work. Each group has a different
topic that they must investigate: Toys, Games, Music and School. Within
each group they must create three displays; these combined will make up
the Children's Museum. These displays are the Past, Present and Future
of each topic.
The project draws on a wide variety
of resources and so will appeal to a wide range of learning intelligences.
We feel that this project will be of great benefit to children as they
will appreciate how they are unique and important. |
| What you need to complete the
project |
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Digital video camera
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Access to computers with the internet
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Tape Recorders and televisions
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Micro-Worlds programme/ Powerpoint
programme for Claymation
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Materials for Presentation: Paper,
charts, markers.
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Access to library to look up books
on Resources Page
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Microsoft Encarta 98.
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Printer
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Space for displays
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Musical instruments
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Access to historical school evidence
|
| Bibliography |
Primary School Curriculum:
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History Teacher Guidelines
-
History Curriculum Book.
2nd Year B.Ed. Curriculum History Lecture and
Seminar Notes (2002)
3rd Year B.Ed. Teaching and Learning with
History and Geography Elective Notes (2003) |
