Long-term Objectives:
Improve studentsí research and artistic skills in a teaming environment and provide them with an opportunity to practice their public speaking and presentation skills.
Short-term Objectives:
Familiarize the students with the Seven Wonders of the World and improve their understanding of world geography.
Specific Lesson Objectives:
Students will be divided into teams to research and then create a poster representing one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Students will then present their findings to the rest of the class and place each poster in the approximate location on an enlarged Ancient World Map.
Materials:
Poster board Procedures:
Divide the class into seven teams. Assign each team one of the Seven Wonders. Instruct them to use the encyclopedia and Internet resources to obtain information about the assigned Wonder, paying particular attention to appearance and location.
Hand an enlarged Ancient World Map on an open bulletin board or open classroom wall. Encourage the students to use it as an additional resource.
Instruct each team to create a poster representing their assigned wonder. Explain that this poster will be presented to the class and placed on the map at the conclusion of the assignment.
When all of the teams have completed their assignments, have them report their findings to the class explaining their poster. After the presentation, instruct them to place their poster in approximately the correct location on the map.
Evaluation:
Each poster will receive a grade and every child should show some level of participation on their respected team. The poster should be neat and legible and contain at a minimum a description of the Wonder, both graphically and texturally. The poster should also contain a reference to geographic location. Presentations should be organized with references to the poster. Placement on map should be approximately in the correct location. Meeting each of these requirements should entitle the poster and each child an A.
Long-term Objectives:
Increase mathematical computation skills through the use of metric conversions.
Short-term Objectives:
To be able to research and locate information regarding the specific structural measurements and then to apply the metric conversion table to convert dimensions from standard to metric.
Specific Lesson Objectives:
Students will use Internet search engines to list the Seven Wonders of the World and their respective location. They will find the height of each Wonder from the information they receive during their Internet search. They must ;locate two different Internet sources to support their findings. Using this information they will convert the height of each Wonder to metric.
Materials:
Metric Conversion Table (Feet to meters) Procedures:
Review metric conversions in class.
Ask the students to work in groups of 2 to 3, brainstorm and write a plan for searching the Internet for the Seven Wonders of the World. Then discuss as a class the best ways to search for this topic.
Allow students to begin exploring. If a student finds two different calculations for height, ask him or her to find a third, or even a fourth, if possible.
After the information has been located. Instruct each student to list the Seven Wonders of the World, their location, and their height in standard feet. Finally, instruct the students to use the height in feet and convert it to meters and add the calculated value to respective Wonder.
Evaluation:
Students will be assessed upon the correctness of the list as well as their ability to search the Internet effectively.
Long-term Objectives:
Increase cooperation within a peer group while improving retention of instructed material. Gain positive feedback through competition.
Short-term Objectives:
Foster critical thinking skills and promote enthusiasm for learning about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Provide a tool to create a competitive, yet cooperative and enjoyable atmosphere in which students will want to learn about the subject.
Specific Lesson Objectives:
Students will be divided into teams to create a list of 10 statements about a specific fact relating to the Seven Wonders of the World. Teams compete against each other to guess the fact based on revealing each of the statements in a given order. This creates a fun environment to learn a variety of facts surrounding the subject matter.
Materials:
Student textbooks Procedures:
Divide students into three teams.
List places, people, and events relating to the Seven Wonders of the World to be reviewed on the blackboard. Each team must cooperatively decide on a list of three to five items to be used by their particular team. (This written list will not be shared with the other two teams.) After a designated time limit, the blackboard will be erased.
Allow each individual team to write ten true statements about each of the items they chose. The statements should be listed in decreasing order 10 - 1, and should contain valid information from vague to specific.
Example (Pyramid of Giza)
10. It was built around 2560 BC. Each team will sit in a manner to form a triangle when facing one other team.
Team 1 will proceed with one of their chosen topics by reading their first statement (10) aloud to Team 2. Team 2 will confer and make an educated guess.
If Team 2 is correct they will receive ten points and will begin to read their first statement to Team 3, who will convert and make an educated guess. If Team 2 is incorrect, Team 1 will continue on with their next statement and the procedure repeats. Team 2 will receive the number of points in relationship to the statement given when the guess is correct. However, if Team 2 is unable to guess correctly after all ten statements have been given, Team 3 will receive all ten points. Therefore, the statement list should become increasingly more specific or informative so that Team 2 is able to receive one or two points, thus preventing Team 3 from receiving all ten points.
When the points have been established, Team 2 will repeat the procedure reading the statements of one of their chosen topics to Team 3. If Team 3 does not guess correctly by the end of the first ten statements, Team 1 will receive ten points.
Continue on with Team 3 reading to Team 1 and so forth.
The game continues until all topics have been reviewed. High score wins. Penalty points of -5 will be given to any team listing an incorrect statement.
Evaluation:
Students will be assessed upon their participation in the activity, both in the preparation for their own teamsí list of statements and in offering guesses for the game portion of the exercise.
Long-term Objectives:
Improve studentsí research and reasoning skills while working effectively in groups.
Short-term Objectives:
Familiarize the students with the Seven Wonders of the World and provide them with an opportunity to learn about other great wonders of the present time as well as their own community.
Specific Lesson Objectives:
Students will identify the Seven Wonders of the World and justify their selection to the list. Students will then create a list of seven new wonders of the present time and a list of seven wonders in their own community and justify their selection.
Materials:
Paper Procedures:
Group the students into pairs.
Ask each group to identify all Seven Wonders of the World, and have them briefly explain why they think they were selected as wonders. Ask the students to consider the location, structure, beauty, magnitude, and duration of each wonder when they are writing. One detailed paragraph for each Wonder will be sufficient. The students should feel free to utilize both encyclopedias and the Internet as sources for information.
After all of the students have completed their paragraphs, ask them to share their ideas in open discussions. Try to determine what your class considers the greatest of the Seven Wonders by taking a vote.
Now that the students have evaluated the Wonders, challenge them to create a list of seven new wonders of the present time, using information from both encyclopedias and the Internet. Instruct them to write a paragraph justifying their selection for each wonder. They are then to present this list to the class.
Finally, have the students create a list of seven wonder in their own community. Again instruct them to write a paragraph justifying their selection that will be presented to the class.
Evaluation:
Students will be assessed showing good research and presentation skills. Their selections should be logical. Their paragraphs should demonstrate a high level of thought and reasoning.
Long-term Objectives:
Gain confidence in learning by introducing a fun and exciting method for reviewing material in a classroom setting.
Short-term Objectives:
Prepare for upcoming test on the Seven Wonders of the World.
Specific Lesson Objectives:
Students will play a game of baseball to review material for an upcoming test on the Seven Wonders of the World. Students will move around four bases to achieve a home run. The bases are for first, second, third, and home. The bases may be paper, mats, etc., placed on the floor, desks, or chairs in a baseball diamond formation.
Materials:
Test material to be used Procedures:
Students are divided into two teams and come up to bat in a random or sequential order as decided by the teacher (pitcher).
A question is asked of the student at home plate. A correct answer results in a hit and the student moves to first base. An incorrect answer results in an out. Subsequent questions with correct answers allow the students to move around the bases until each reaches home plate and scores a run.
An 8 or 10 ěrun ruleî is used if one side seems to dominate all the correct answers.
If a question is answered incorrectly, the opposing team has a chance to make a double play if one of them can answer it correctly. This also keeps the other team attentive and involved.
Play continues as each team comes up to bat and scores or earns outs until all questions are asked. Missed question may be asked a second time after all others have been asked.
Evaluation:
Students are allowed to move their bodies and their brains instead of remaining in their seats all hour. The movement combined with the competitive nature of the exercise should help them remember the material better. The success of the review can be judged with the outcome of the subsequent test. This activity can even be expanded to other review sessions and a tally of attempted questions versus correct answers could be maintained (similar to a baseball batting average). This average can be used to track a students progress for retaining presented material.
Construction paper
Magic markers
Scissors
Glue
Tape
Ruler
Enlarged Ancient World Map
Bulletin board/open classroom wall
Encyclopedia
Internet access
Internet access
Internet access
Paper
Pencils
Chalkboard or overhead projector
9. It consisted of more than 2 million blocks of stone.
8. It was 145 meters high
7. It was designed as a tomb for royalty.
6. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders.
5. It is the last of the Seven Wonders of the World still in existence.
4. It sits on the Nile River.
3. It was built for the Pharaoh Khufu.
2. It is in Egypt.
1. It is triangular in shape.
Pencils
Encyclopedias
Internet access
Paper or mats for bases
