Pam+-+Authentic+Problems


 * Civil Rights Museum Exhibit**
 * Grade 7 Social Studies**

__**The Problem:**__ The curator of a new Civil Rights Museum is designing the museum to include exhibits that feature significant events from the Civil Rights era in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. The center area of the museum will feature the most significant event in the largest exhibit space.

__**The Task:**__ Your team will work together to review the events from the Civil Rights era and select one event that you feel is the most significant. Your team will also design the museum exhibit about the significant event that you've chosen. Using electronic reference resources, gather and record facts about your significant event. Also make a listing of possible artificats that could be included in your exhibit. The team with the best exhibit plan

__**Suggested Digital Tools - To Help Students Manage Learning Outcomes**__
 * To Solve the Problem**
 * Electronic Subscription Databases ([|ProQuest Historical Newspapers], [|World Book Online], [|ProQuest eLibrary])
 * Primary Document Archives on the Internet ([|Library of Congress American Memory], [|Smithsonian Online Collection], [|TIME Magazine archive])
 * Websites (listing available at [|Best of History Websites/Civil Rights Movement])
 * To Assess Progress**
 * Reflection Logs (using word processing)
 * Checklist (teacher-created using [|PBL Checklist generator])
 * To Present Findings**
 * Videotaped Oral Presentation - to explain why the selected event is considered to be the most significant ([|Flip video camera])
 * [|Museum Box](display text, images, video on a topic)
 * [|Frames Software] - claymation modeling activity