Mapping the Underground Railroad: Project Sketch

8/22/2019 Mapping the Underground Railroad: Project Sketch

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ACTIVITY AUTHOR DESCRIPTION

1 JILLIAN

Objective:

Students will be able to

explain what the

Underground Railroad was

and begin to develop

questions to guide their

research.

Guiding Questions:

1. What is the UndergroundRailroad?

2. How are Pennsylvaniahistorians preserving the

history of the UndergroundRailroad?

3. What can we learn tohelp the historians in theirpreservation?

Resources:www.socrative.com

Discovery EducationsAmericas Journey through

Slavery: Escaping Slavery onthe Underground Railroad

Preteaching:1. The teacher will ask, What

do you already know aboutthe Underground Railroad?

usingSocrative. Students will

present their existing

schema, and responses will

be displayed on the

interactive whiteboard.

2. Discussion and

introduction of the Essential

Question (How are we

preserving the amazing

history of the Underground

Railroad?).

3. The teacher will ask, What

do you want to learn about

the Underground Railroad?

usingSocrative.

4. Introduce guest speaker, a

historian from The Society of

Civil War Historians, who willdiscuss the Underground

Railroad and conduct a Q &

A Session with students.

5. The class will watch the

Discovery Education video:

Americas Journey through

Slavery: Escaping Slavery on

the Underground Railroad

http://app.discoveryeducation

.com/player/view/assetGuid/5

95CFE85-A22D-4444-BF9C-

A83A565055BB. This video

explains what slavery was,

setting the stage as to why

the Underground Railroad

originated and how it aided in
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ending slavery.

6. While students are viewing

the video, the teacher will

create groups based on

responses. After AmericasJourney through Slavery:

Escaping Slavery on the

Underground Railroad, the

groups will develop guiding

questions that will drive their

research.

7. The teacher will inform the

students that the culminating

activity in this challenge will

be to produce a Google Earthtour video that will be linked

to public records.

2 SARAH

Guiding Questions: Whatrole did Pennsylvania play inthe underground railroad?

Who are significantPennsylvania historicalfigures connected to theUnderground Railroad?

What are important

Pennsylvania locations on the

Underground Railroad?

Student-driven questions

Objective: Students will

begin research and use

portaportal to combine

resources with group

members that focus on their

student-driven topic.

Guiding Activity:

1.) Students will begin to

think about everything they

know and want to know about

the Underground Railroad inorder to complete the

challenge.Chal lenge: Provideour commu ni ty wi th knowledge

about Pennsylvanias his tory and

relat ionsh ip to the Undergroun d

Rai lroad.

**Inform students that their

work will be linked to the

school website and sent to

the town historical society

and other organizations toteach others.

2.) The teacher will presentopen-ended researchquestions and allow studentsto brainstorm some of theirown:


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Resources:

Google Drive

www.portaportal.com

What is the undergroundrailroad?Who are significant historicalfigures connected to it?What are important locations

on its route?

3.) Students will use Guided

Resources to begin their

research on the Underground

Railroad. Groups will use

Google Docs to take notes

and begin to focus their topic

based on student interest.

4.) Students will use

www.portaportal.com- a web

bookmarking site to

collaborate resources on their

focused topic.

Guiding Resources:

See Diigo for list of

databases, internet websites

and videos.

https://groups.diigo.com/grou

p/pbl-team-2013

Google Drive

www.portaportal.com

Materials:

Computers with internetaccess for each student

3 LINDSEY

Guiding Question:

What was it like to be a run

away slave?

Objective:

Students will virtually

Social Learning:Activity:

Teacher tells students

they will be learning about the

dangers slaves encountered

while trying to escape.

Students will play

interactive games to
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experience the challenges

encountered by run-away

slaves.

Students will follow

the path of escaped slaves as

they traveled through PA.

Materials:

Internet Access

Computers

Freedom Riverby

Doreen Rappaport

Song Follow the

Drinking Gourd

Resources:

http://education.nation

algeographic.com/education/

multimedia/interactive/the-

underground-

railroad/?ar_a=1

http://www.mission-

us.org/pages/landing-

mission-

experience the challenges of

escaping of slaves:

http://education.nationalgeogr

aphic.com/education/multime

dia/interactive/the-

underground-

railroad/?ar_a=1

http://www.mission-

us.org/pages/landing-

mission-

Students will read and

discuss Freedom Riverby

Doreen Rappaport.

Students will listen to

and discuss the song Follow

the Drinking Gourdthat gavethe slaves directions for

escape. Students will

compose their own lyrics

giving clues for the escape

route they plotted.

Henry Box Brown

mailed himself in a box to the

North. Students will create an

Underground Railroad Box

containing items an escaped

slave would take with him.

Students will select

and research an

Underground Railroad

conductor from Pennsylvania.

4 CORINNE

Guiding Questions:

1. How can we use a GoogleEarth tour to enhance the

preservation of the history ofthe Underground Railroad?

2. How can we share whatwe have learned using an

annotated Google Earth tour?

Synthesis andPresentation:

1. Students will choose 5-7important locations to the

underground railroad (three

must be in Pennsylvania). 2.Students will save those

locations to My Places onGoogle Earth and annotatetheir pins with photographs

and links from their research.3. Students will export their

work in a KMZ file. 4.
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3. Where should we send our

project so it can become apublic, historical resource?

Resources:

Google Earth

Creating a Narrated Tour InGoogle Earth

Packaging Content in a KMZFile

Students will use their KMZfiles to record a video tour oftheir research in an effort to

show the significant rolePennsylvania played in the

fight for freedom forthousands of Americanslaves. 5. Student work will

be linked on the schoolwebsite and sent to the townhistorical society and other

organizations to be linked forthe public.
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Mapping the Underground Railroad: Project Sketch