Project+Outline

Students establishing a virtual settlement based on the issues dealt with in Social Studies classes. We should encourage the subject teachers to come up with a script of problems that will make the students collaborate and publish answers.
 * History Lives Technology/Social Studies Project**

I would like there to be one cumulative project near the end, perhaps a movie or a story of the community by the students in period dress?

1. Assignment of colonial groups to students, ideally we will have 4 students per group 2 from each the US and Canada classes that will work together. Some of the colonial groups that will "crash into North America" could be: Various other groups may be established, the more the diversity the better. We may even want to consider having a native contingent to represent the issues the natives in that area would have with the potential settlers. We assume there was a huge squally that landed several ships in the the same small location. Since there are safety in numbers the settlers decided to stick together.
 * Puritans
 * Amish
 * Germans
 * French

2. Where in the world? The class is now given coordinates for a location between the US and Canada. Google earth can be used to label areas of the of the settlement including where our smaller groups are in the colony. We could have the French quarter with out the beads. :)



3. Deciding on governance.- We can have a discussion about the problems that were had in other colonies in regards to governance

4. Trades, and economy

5. Political Issues

6. Native Americans