Stolen Phone

Today Mr. Williams faked his phone being stolen (students did not know it was faked but some caught on) and he had the students collect as much data on the incident as they could recall. Students then shared what they knew with a few students who were not in the room at the time of the "crime" (these students were given a task to ensure they were out of the room). The students who were out of the room then reported about what they knew about the "crime".

After Mr. Williams confessed that it was a hoax, we discussed terms such as Evidence, Primary source, secondary source, point of view and historical interpretation.

Students then read the introduction and completed the table where the terms were defined and examples from the "crime" where identified. That table can be accessed from this link. On the back of that sheet students attached three copies of the same picture of Christopher Columbus and then identified evidence in the picture that supports three different historians (pages 11 and 12 in their text) perspective of Christopher Columbus. That same picture had evidence that supported three very different views.

I also distributed a permission slip for working online. If by chance that permission slip was lost you can get a copy of it from this link.