1. Create Your Own Project
Your task is to create your own project.
You and your group members will create a unique project that uses all of the skills, talents, and abilities of the members of the group.
You will have four days in class to work on this project. You are expected to use all of your class time for the creation of this project.
This project is due May 29th. Late projects will lose 5% of the total grade per day.

2. Rules Here are the rules: Your project must be educational
You must provide an educational objective – what you want your audience to know, or be able to do, after they’ve seen your project
You must provide an assessment for what your audience learns
Your project must involve presentation in some way
It does not need to be an oral presentation – presentation is anything that visually or orally provides information
You must plan a project that will use all of your available class time to complete – think big!
You must provide an APA-cited summary and reference page summarizing the research that you did for this project
We will go over in class how to accomplish this.

3. Historical Skills
Your project must involve these four historical skills:
Presentational – already built in
Critical thinking – your project must do more than hand back information, it must process the information and make an interpretation
Spatial thinking – your project must involve something about how human beings can interact with the world around them
Chronological thinking – your project must involve the passage of time and its impact on human beings

4. Historical Skills - Suggestions
Chronological Thinking
Compare present and past events to evaluate the consequences of past decisions and to apply lessons learned.
Analyze how change occurs through time due to shifting values and beliefs as well as technological advancements and changes in the political and economic landscape.
Spatial Thinking
Construct various forms of geographic representations to show the spatial patterns of physical and human phenomena.
Relate current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions.
Critical Thinking
Distinguish valid arguments from false arguments when interpreting current and historical events.
Evaluate sources for validity and credibility and to detect propaganda, censorship, and bias.
Presentational Skills
Take a position on a current public policy issue and support it with historical evidence, reasoning, and constitutional analysis in a written and/or oral format.

5. Some Examples Some examples Mr. White imagined:
Plan the production of a new, un-filmed Young Indiana Jones episode, and film/perform it
Create and perform a narrated, interpretive dance regarding an historical issue of this time period
Plan, market, and present a proposal for an historical amusement/theme park
Plan, create, and market a series of children’s toys to get them interested in the study of history

6. Objective – 12 points total
Excellent – 6-5 points
Good – 4-2 points
Poor – 1-0 points
The project’s objective is stated clearly, and has a valuable historical aim.
The project’s objective is stated vaguely, or may lack in historical value.
The project’s objective is very unclear, and/or it may lack historical value.
The project’s assessment is valid, challenging, and tied to the project’s objective.
The project’s assessment may lack slightly in challenge, or its relevance to the project’s objective.
The project’s assessment gives little to no valid challenge, and/or is completely irrelevant to the project’s objective.
Support – 12 points total
The evidence used in the project is strong and effective.
All evidence used in the project is strong and effective.
Most evidence used in the project is strong and effective
Little or no evidence used in the project is strong or effective.
The evidence used in the project is credible, and comes from valuable sources.
All evidence used in the project is credible, and comes from valuable sources.
Most or some of the evidence used in the project is credible, and comes from valuable sources.
Little to none of the evidence used in the project is credible or from valuable sources.
Technique – 12 points total
The project shows evidence of effective planning and execution.
The entire project shows evidence of effective planning and execution.
The project shows generally effective planning and execution.
The project shows a lack of effective planning and execution.
The project uses all of its available resources to accomplish its objective
The project uses all of its available resources to accomplish its objective.
The project makes a generally good use of its available resources to accomplish its objective.
The project makes poor use of its resources in accomplishing its objective.
Peer/Teacher Review – 10 points total
Required Elements – 6 points each (24 total)
Presentation – 6 points
APA-cited Summary – 6 points
Objective – 6 points
Assessment – 6 points