1. Presentation Created By: Autumn Vincent
Good Hope Cemetery: A Landmark for Social Science Research A Community Exploration Idea
Presentation Created By:
Autumn Vincent

2. Good Hope Cemetery

3. Good Hope Cemetery Information
Location: Greenfield, Wisconsin on the corner of 43rd Street and Coldspring Road.
Services:
1.) Cleans graves
2.) Sells gravestones to families
3.) Adds final dates to the gravestones (Good Hope Cemetery, n.d.)
Entrance Fees: Free
Travel Fees: School Bus Travel Fees

4. Contact Information
Mailing Address:
South 43rd Street
Greenfield, Wisconsin
Phone Number:
(414)
(Good Hope Cemetery, n.d.)

5. Accessibility Flat Ground Roads
Easy parking places on the side of the road
Wheel chair assessable
Large cemetery for everyone to explore

6. Reasons for Selection
Every community has a cemetery for the deceased to rest.
The cemetery can teach about the past. Cemeteries can teach people about people’s lives, culture, religion, traditions, rituals, wars, symbols, geography, and families.
Cemeteries are places in the community where children can activity research the history of the people in their community.
Children can explore the nature of their community.
The tombstones at the cemetery can be used as documentary tools.
Children can learn geography by reading maps and following directions.

7. Social Studies Threads
Geography:
1.) Students can use maps to gather information about Greenfield, Wisconsin.
2.) Children can learn how their community connects to the world.
History:
1.) Children can use the information from the tombstones, maps, symbols, and photos in the cemetery to construct information about the past.
2.) Children can use the information from the cemetery to create timelines.

8. Social Studies Thread Political Science and Citizenship: Economics:
1.) Students will learn from the cemetery the responsibility of the people who have leaved in the past.
Economics:
1.) Students will learn that cemeteries are a business.
Behavioral Science:
1.) Students will learn about people who are different than themselves.
2.) Students will learn how language provides information about different cultures.
3.) Students will learn how a person’s identity is formed.
4.) Students will learn how families are different.

9. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Social Studies Performance Standards
Geography:
A.4.5 Use atlases, databases, grid systems, charts, graphs, and maps to gather information about the local community, Wisconsin, the United States, and the world
A.4.7 Identify connections between the local community and other places in Wisconsin, the United States, and the world
History:
B.4.1 Identify and examine various sources of information that are used for constructing an understanding of the past, such as artifacts, documents, letters, diaries, maps, textbooks, photos, paintings, architecture, oral presentations, graphs, and charts
B.4.2 Use a timeline to select, organize, and sequence information describing eras in history

10. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Social Studies Performance Standards
Political Science and Citizenship:
C.4.1 Identify and explain the individual's responsibilities to family, peers, and the community, including the need for civility and respect for diversity.
Economics:
D.4.3 Identify local goods and services that are part of the global economy and explain their use in Wisconsin.
Behavioral Science:
E.4.2 Explain the influence of factors such as family, neighborhood, personal interests, language, likes and dislikes, and accomplishments on individual identity and development
E.4.3 Describe how families are alike and different, comparing characteristics such as size, hobbies, celebrations, where families live, and how they make a living.
E.4.8 Describe and distinguish among the values and beliefs of different groups and institutions
E.4.9 Explain how people learn about others who are different from themselves
E.4.11 Give examples and explain how language, stories, folk tales, music, and other artistic creations are expressions of culture and how they convey knowledge of other peoples and cultures

11. Before the Research Exploration:
Provide children with background and historical information about the cemetery.
Discuss with the children what they know about cemeteries.
Brainstorm with the children why a cemetery would be a good place to conduct social science research.
Explain to the children that at cemeteries, we can learn about our community through people, traditions, symbols, religion, language, art, and nature.

12. The Research Activity
Explain at the cemetery, the children will be working with a partner to conduct research on their community. They will need to stay with their partners at all times as they walk around.
In their research notebook, the children will take notes of symbols, languages, art, and messages they observe on the tombstones.
Students will use large white paper and crayons to create a rubbing of a tombstone.
Students will be asked to spread out in the cemetery to explore the cemetery in its entirety.

13. Small Group
This activity is designed to have small groups of children explore and conduct research all around the cemetery. The children will be allowed to walk around sections of the cemetery with a partner. There will be adult supervision.
This activity would be difficult for a large group exploration. If we completed this project in a large group, the children would not be activity constructing knowledge.

15. Symbols

16. Different Languages

17. Photographs

18. Tombstone Messages

19. War Heroes

20. Art

21. Different Ages

22. Artifacts

23. Economic Status

24. Nature

25. After the Exploration
Have each partner share their research from the experience.
As a teacher, lead a discussion for the children to analyze and share the following from their research:
1.) Symbols
2.) Languages
3.) Messages
4.) War Heroes
5.) Art
6.) Life spans of people
7.) Artifacts
8.) Economic Statuses of people
9.) Nature

26. Possible Units Families Funeral Rituals The uses of maps and atlas
Family Traditions
World War Two
World War One
The Korean War
Timelines
A person’s responsibilities
Languages

27. The End

28. References
Welcome to Good Hope Cemetery. (n.d.). Good Hope Cemetery. Retrieved March 20, 2009, from History Hunters Cemetery Tour. (2009). Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved March 20, 2009, from teachers/lessons/elementary/cemetary.asp