EME 2040 Final Project World War II April 19, 2011

EME 2040 Final ProjectWorld War II

April 19, 2011

Presented by Catherine Ahlstrom, Sterlina Morning, and Aaron Zaslow

Basic Information» Who: Intended for high school freshman students

» What: World War II History Lesson

» When: This projective history lesson will approximately take two whole class periods each which are 45 minutes long

» Technologies Used: Microsoft PowerPoint, Web 2.0 Bubblr Tool, Concept Map/Timeline, and Recorded Podcast

Why These Technologies?» Stimulates visual, auditory, and kinesthetic

learning

» Promotes social and academic classroom interaction

» Allows students to refer back to activities as they are posted on the classroom Wiki Space website which can be found here: http://aaronzaslow.wikispaces.com/message/list/home

Activity One - Jeopardy» Trivia about main events that occurred in World

War II

» Students can visualize relationships among ideas

» (open Jeopardy document)

Activity Two – Web 2.0 Wordle Tool

Creative way to

implement the use of Web 2.0

tools in an educational

setting!

Activity Three – Concept Map /Timeline

Activity Four - Podcast» An audio or video file that can be posted online or

downloaded

» This specific audio podcast covers Operation Barbarossa that took place in World War II

» Students can refer to the WikiSpace site, that is where the podcast is posted