WR+Team+2

=WebQuest Process and Web Resources=

"Simulate the Westward journey on a small scale by using the GoogleEarth "path" tool to illustrate the route you take from home to school. "
 * **WebQuest Process** || **Web Resourses (URL)** ||
 * Math:
 * 1) Draw your path using the “Add Path” tool.
 * 2) Using a straight edge and the scale provided in the bottom corner of the program, use your master conversion skills to determine the distance of the path you have just drawn. (Refresh yourself on map scales http://www.thereareplaces.com/infgdes/mapsguides/mapscale.htm)
 * 3) Go to the drop down menu labeled “View” and select the option “Grid”. Recalculate the distance of your path by using the distance formula and the coordinates of the endpoints of your path. (Refresh yourself on using the distance formula http://www.purplemath.com/modules/distform.htm)
 * 4) Compare your answers from Step 2 and Step 3 with the "path measure" tool (right click on your path in the left viewing sidebar --> “Properties” --> “Measurements”).
 * 5) Make a “tour” of this path explain how you found all three distances from Step 2, Step 3 and Step 4. Save this to your eFolio. (Refresh on how to make a “tour” http://www.googletouring.com/create.php)

English:

Step 1: Your first step in this stage of your mission is to go to www.xtranormal.com and create your own individual account. BEFORE you set up this account know this: I will be giving each one of you a class email address, a username, and a password that I will create. Please do not use your own name and email address for this. If you do then you will not succeed in your mission. Once you have successfully created your account click **Continue to Movie Maker** to continue to the next phase in this mission, and don’t worry, you’ll get used to this computer thing soon enough. Step 2: **Design Your Movie** This step is extremely important in getting your knowledge and information across to the locals of Farmington Maine. If you do not make this realistic enough your mission will not be successful. -The first part of this step is __creating of the background and characters.__ For this you need to choose the //1 or 2 Actors Historical Figurz// option from the list of free choices given to you. Once this page has loaded it’s your job to choose whichever location is accurate for the landscape where you’re event will be taking place during your Xtranormal movie. -To create your character/s you much choose one or two characters that will be the main characters in this movie. This means that they will be the only ones talking (even if there are other characters in the background you choose). The one decision about the characters is that they need to be historically accurate, with accurate voices. If they are close but not exactly voice picture coherent it’s alright because of the limited selection of characters that they have. **This does not mean that you can go crazy!** **-**The last part in this step is adding additional sounds. This is not mandatory, but if you feel like the background sounds and/or music will enhance your movie then feel free to add them into the film. Warning: If you add them just because their cool then you will get points deducted. You have to make it accurate and they can’t detract from the overall movie. Step 3: **Make Script** -As a time traveler you need to make sure that you are clear in the dialogue between the two characters that you have chosen. For the storyline you need to focus in on the one event that interests you the most (This must be chosen from the list of event that was given to you by your commanding officer). -The other part of this is that the script needs to be through the eyes of the children/child from your time that are around the age of 14. If you are doing two characters then they need to have two perspectives on the same event. There are very few words allowed for the movie, so the people of Farmington are going to need you to use all of the space that Xtranormal allows.
 * Just a note to you: you all do not have to have the same location as others; however it does have to be accurate.

On with you now! Your time is running short! || Math:

Map Scales: http://www.thereareplaces.com/infgdes/mapsguides/mapscale.htm

Distance Formula: http://www.purplemath.com/modules/distform.htm

Google Earth Tutorial: http://www.googletouring.com/create.php

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English:

The Xtranormal website:

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This is a tutorial on how to publish your Xtranormal! [] ||
 * =**Politics:**=


 * //Prompt://**

Congratulations! You have made it through Ellis Island to the great land of opportunity. Now the problem is you’re a stranger in a strange land. Based on the debates held today you were asked to develop defense for your side which type of life was better for life in the 19th century. You will take the research you have developed for the lesson and now apply it within a wiki space that you can use to present during exhibition night.


 * //Guiding Questions://**

//Within the wiki space you must answer these following questions://

Show the positives and negatives within your chosen lifestyle. What were some of the benefits and reasoning for traveling west? Or why did people stay within cities and assimilate into that life style? Ultimately you’re showing what you have learned about this place. Show some cultural aspects one might expect to see within these communities.

How does the environment affect the lifestyle? What jobs or responsibilities might a person during this time expect to complete? Finally historically and through reading what helped immigrants and emigrants stay and survive within their new homes while never giving up on their dreams? What legislation and movements helped them survive within this country?


 * //Steps://**


 * 1.** Create a character based on your personal interest. You will explain this character’s life on the wikispace. You will be required to write a descriptive & creative background statement giving basic information (particular city or region, ethnic background, religious practices, work information, wages, etc.) to give your audience the information about your point of emphasis.


 * 2.** Find graphs, charts, videos, illustrations, primary documents, statistics, demographics to support your character and his/her development. This will give your story legitimacy and deeper understanding of your particular case study.


 * 3.** Try to be creative in terms of demonstrating the conditions that your character lived in…provide photos or your own illustrations (supported through primary sources) demonstrating what homes looked like.


 * 4.** Show the type of skills work or labor your character might have been responsible in terms of making a living within the community.

[|Venn Diagrams]: You will use this graphic organizer in order to organize your thoughts within deciding your character’s path. [|Immigration Information]: A little background from Ellis Island to help you within your journey [|Irish working Class of 1850’s:] A little documentary to help with information about Irish Immigration [|Primary Documents:] Here is a bunch of primary source documents from immigrants through the turn of the 20th century. [|How to Construct a Wikispace]: Here is a Microsoft word document explaining how ||
 * 5.** Show what sort of family dynamic your character might have had. || **//Resources://**
 * __History:__**

You will write a comic, using Comic Life, that details the trials and tribulations of a fictional settler in the West during the 1800's. Use the websites given to you find out more about life in the West, and use your imagination! The comic should be about 4-8 pages in length. Step 1: Explore the websites given, and read about what it was like to live in the West in the 1800’s. You will need to read these websites carefully, as they are written in language that was used in the 1800’s.
 * Performance Task:**
 * Steps:**

Step 2: Find pictures you can use for your comic. You can either use the Google Image Search, or you can take your own pictures with your won cameras. NOTE: IF YOU USE GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH, YOU HAVE TO CITE WHICH WEBSITE YOU FOUND ALL OF YOUR PICTURES.

Step 3: Write your comic! I recommend that you write out a script beforehand, so you know what you want to write! Don't forget, the comic should be 4-8 pages long! Good luck!

[|Life of Alvin Coffey]
 * Resources:**

[|Letters of a Woman Homesteader]

[|A Mormon Woman's Life in Southern Utah]