Brief Description

Students will create web pages documenting their study of the houses on historical Main Street in Tucson, Arizona using primary and secondary resources.

Standards and Frameworks

Technology Standards

• 3T-E2.  Publish and present information using technology tools

• REACH fifth-grade curriculum: expanding students' understanding of the concepts of time, continuity, and change in the context of Tucson's history.

Academic

• Students will increase their knowledge of Tucson's history by synthesizing what

they learn through primary and secondary resources.

• Students will create web pages documenting their study of  the houses on historical Main Street in Tucson, Arizona using primary and secondary resources.

• Ability to create a web page, ability to scan photos into a document, ability to use a digital camera and incorporate photos into a document.

Article: "The Houses on Main Street", Computer, Scanner, Digital Camera.

Accommodations for Special Needs

Pair students with special needs with higher able students.

Procedures

• Instruct students to read the article titled "The Houses on Main Street".
• Instruct students to choose an historically important person described in the article to further research.
• Take students on a tour of historical downtown Tucson which includes the houses on Main Street.
• Allow students to take photos of the houses in which the important people they choose lived.
• Instruct students to create a web page incorporating the photos from the article with the photos from the tour and text describing how the houses were used originally compared to how they are used today.

The creation of a complete web page with full participation of all students.

Teacher Name: Diane Harland
Site: Holaway
Date Submitted: February 25, 2002