Our School Community in Wisconsin History

Our School Community
A Historical Perspective
Created by Student Authors

To Participate: Contact Madge Klais at mklais@madison.k12.wi.us

Product Description: Students will tell the story of their school community. They may narrate the entire history of the school or focus on one or two events or episodes that they think have historical significance. The history should demonstrate change over time at their school and relate the development of the school to periods or events in Wisconsin or United States history. Each school history should allow for an interactive component. The project can incorporate collaboration across classrooms and solicite participation of former staff and student. This story can include speculation about the vision for the future of the school community.

Goals (what students will know and be able to do)

Understand the history of their school as it relates to the history of their community, state, or country

Engage in the research process

State clearly an information question
Determine possible sources and locate relevant information
Gather, organize and interpret information from more than one source
Record sources of information

Conduct interviews to acquire information about the history of their school
Gather and interpret primary source information such as photos and school-related documents that illustrate change over time

Create and publish documents that tell the story of their school

Include historically accurate information
Identify and use appropriate grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling
Cite sources
Elicit support or feedback on student writing from others
Incorporate Internet links relating to the relevant history or community (if available)
Integrate an interactive component
Use a word processing program
Create and/or select and manipulate meaningful graphics
Know and use HTML to prepare docucment for the Web (optional)

Reflect on experiences in doing this project (what student has learned)

Resources to Support the Project

To View Student Work: Our School Community in Wisconsin History
To Participate: Contact Madge Klais at mklais@madison.k12.wi.us
This project was developed by Madge Klais, Information Resources Support Teacher in Madison Metropolitan School District. The project was designed to be adapted to a variety of grade levels.

This site is maintained by Barbara Spitz, bspitz@madison.k12.wi.us and Chris Burch
Madison Metropolitan School District
Instructional Technologies: Coordinator, Joan Peebles
545 West Dayton Street
Madison, Wisconsin USA

Last updated 3/5/97

Our School Community A Historical Perspective Created by Student Authors

Our School Community
A Historical Perspective
Created by Student Authors