Gena+McGee+causes+of+the+Civil+War+wiki

=Causes of the Civil War=

2) Put students in to groups of 3 and have the students choose which topic they will research (first come-first serve). 3) Introduce the wikispace and how to edit the content when student begin to go in, create, edit, link, etc. 4) Give the students the opportunity to find websites and link at least one webpage to the bottom of the group page. Teacher will add other links or a document with links later and students can explore more websites for homework they can link to the wikispace as well. 5) Students research web addresses listed on the wiki and can read through the textbook, and start generating notes on their group topic. Each bulleted note will be listed in their group wiki template. At the bottom, the students will list their resources they used to generate their notes, websites or textbook page numbers. 6) Groups will discuss among themselves an explanation of their topic to type onto the wikispace. 7) Groups will then review the other topic explanations and respond to the other groups explanations by asking a question of the group. Questions can either be clarification or digging deeper into the issue/topic. This is to be done as a group so that students will read the question out loud and then come up with their question to post. The students should post a question on three or more topics. 8) Groups then go through the topics and create a flow chart on how all of the topics lead to the Civil War. 9) Groups revise their explanations or answer the questions or look up information to answer the questions posed on their topic. Read through the revised topics and create a revised flow chart. 10) Groups discuss their topic and create an explanation on it's significance to causing the civil war and add it to their wiki. They will also create a list of related topics and add to their wikispace. 11) Group will create a movie trailer on the civil war, but highlighting the climax of their topic. Embed the video on their groups wikispace. 12) Groups go into wikispaces and make comments or ask questions after watching the videos. ||
 * **Title**: ||< Analyzing Causes of the Civil War ||
 * **Subject**: ||< US History ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 11 ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< 3 class periods (1.5hr block) ||
 * **Summary:** ||< Students will prepare material on a wiki page that will go through the causes of the civil war and determine various connections between causes of the civil war and create a flow chart linking. Students will also compare and contrast the differences between the North and South and determine its effects on the relationship between the two regions. ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< 1) Create a list of topics that deal with events, people, laws, institutions, leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War.
 * The explanation needs to be a paragraph.that includes the who, what, when, where, why, how (all that are applicable anyway) of the topic.
 * Objectives: ||< * What TEKS or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet? ||
 * Assessment: ||< Use a grading rubric on the content.
 * the explanation of the topic and notes listed with resources used
 * the significance to its cause of the civil war
 * listed related topics
 * posted appropriate/thoughtful questions on other group topics
 * responded to questions
 * flow charts created (original and revised) with topics connected ||
 * Resources: ||< * Create a wiki template for students to collaborate on
 * Computers or laptops so students can edit on their wiki or iPads
 * Links to usable websites
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || Please share what went well, what was challenging and what you might tweak or modify for your next round.... ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||

Discussion:
Use the Embed Widget tool to add a Discussion Area widget. Bump the number to 100. This will take the comments from the discussion tab and add them to the bottom of the page. This will encourage teacher reflection and modification.