Evaluation and Assessment
Student teams are asked the following assessment
questions:
- What is the American Dream?
- How has the American Dream changed over time?
- How do diverse cultures view the American Dream?
- How have significant historical events affected the American
Dream?
- How will new opportunities of the 21st century
challenge the American Dream?
- What makes your area of interest (e.g., photography) an effective
medium for sharing the American Dream?
- What is your American Dream?
The team products, and their presentation, should
provide evidence of understanding from each member. Be sure to require
that each student contribute to the important tasks of presenting
and defending their viewpoint.
Evaluative criteria was established before beginning the project.
You may use the Analytic Rubric, or you may design a tool that better meets the needs
of your learners. A Confidential Self-Evaluation
from each student can
provide the teacher with further valuable input, and will help the student reflect
upon their own learning and performance.
Project extension ideas
Who are the dreamers that inspire us today?
Ask students to read about or interview others who have a dream.
Enrich this project with your own web resources, books, movie clips,
interviews, or guest speakers.
Project design
America Dreams ...through the decades, is an interdisciplinary
Internet project designed to utilize digitized primary source documents from the
American Memory collections.
Its conception and design is a collaborative effort by Kathleen Ferenz and Leni
Donlan, American Memory Fellows to the National Digital Library in 1997. The instructional
model is a WebQuest,
a type of Internet-based inquiry lesson model first designed by Professor Bernie
Dodge, San Diego State University.
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