Project 4

In the roles of historian, curator and docent, you need to research the assigned era and design a layout/blueprint of the museum wing, choose at least 10 artifacts along with identification cards for the assigned era to display and portray in your museum wing, and create a presentation using Weebly, Prezi, etc. that goes BEYOND what is written on the identification cards.

Group Roles:
Historian: You take the lead in the research for your team and the writing of the identification cards and providing information for the docent to complete their presentation. Along with your team, you should help decide how to represent the assigned era and help prepare the artifacts.
 
Curator: You take the lead in designing the museum wing layout/blueprint, on paper, poster board, or digitally.  Your layout/blueprint should provide a "birds-eyed" view of your museum wing and where each artifact is located.  Your job is to choose and prepare the various artifacts for your exhibit in a creative way that has a logical flow
  • do you put them in chronological order, by common themes, or to invoke a feeling as one goes through the exhibit?
  • do viewers follow a predetermined path or are they free to move about?   
Along with your team, you should help decide how to represent the assigned era.
 
Docent: You take the lead in the presentation of the exhibit by preparing the presentation using Weebly, Prezi, etc. that goes BEYOND what is on the identification card by giving more detailed information about each artifact (something more insightful that a museum guide (called a docent) would explain during a tour. A small audio clip would be an excellent attachment to a presentation.  Along with information provide by your team's historian, you should help decide how to represent the assigned era and help prepare the artifacts. ​
Assessment Criteria (out of 100 points): 
Artifacts: (25 points) Do your artifact choices reveal thought, preparation and creativity? Do they accurately reflect the assigned era?

Written Information: (25 points) Do the identification cards reveal careful research? Do they include specific, accurate information? Do they appropriately explain the artifact, its uses and what it represents?
 
​Museum Wing Design: (25 points) Does the design of the museum lend itself to the theme of the assigned era. Is the overall design creative and thoughtful?

Presentation: (25 points) Do you use your artifacts appropriately and effectively in your presentation? Do you properly give additional and insightful information that someone would expect on a guided tour of your museum that goes BEYOND what is on the identification card?

Unit 1 - World Collide

Section 1 – Age of Exploration
Section 2 – Religion Turmoil
Section 3 – Success in the New World

Unit 2 - World Collide

Section 1 – New England
Section 2 – Elsewhere in America
Section 3 – Shaping of Americanism

Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion

Section 1 – Sowing the Seeds
Section 2 – The Road to Revolution
Section 3 – Harvesting Discontent

Unit 4 - Revolutionary America

Section 1 – Birth of Nation
Section 2 – Fight for Freedom: Lexington to Saratoga
Section 3 – Fight for Freedom: Saratoga to Yorktown
Section 4 – America: Trail and Error

Unit 5 - The New Republic

Section 1 – Constitution: Handbook to American Democracy
Section 2 – Washington and the Young Republic
Section 3 – Adams and Jefferson
Section 4 - War of 1812

Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform

Section 1 – Era of Good Feelings
Section 2 – Age of Jackson
Section 3 – Border Disputes: Manifest Destiny
Section 4 - Growing Pains: Early Reforms

Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction

Section 1 – Antebellum: The Coming Crisis
Section 2 – Civil War: A Nation Divided
Section 3 – Civil War: Leaving Scars of War
Section 4 - Reconstruction: The Problems with Peace
Section 5 - Reconstruction: Retreat from Failure

Unit 8 - The Great West

Section 1 – Trailblazing the West
Section 2 – The Indian Wars
Section 3 – Populism and the Uniting of Farmers

Unit 9 - Immigration and Industrialization

Section 1 – Coming to America
Section 2 – The Gilded Age and Corruption
Section 3 – Unions: Workers Unite!

Unit 10 - The Progressive Era

Section 1 – Roosevelt: Shaping the Modern Presidency
Section 2 – Muckraking and Disenfranchisement
Section 3 – Wilson’s America: The New Freedom

Unit 11 - The American Empire

Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
Section 1 – The American Peril
Section 2 – American Imperialism
Section 3 – The Great War: World War I
Section 4 – War and Peace: The American Paradox
Section 1 – The Roaring Twenties
Section 2 – Boom and Bust: The Great Depression
Section 3 – Roosevelt and the New Deal

Unit 13 - World War II

Section 1 – Appeasement and the Rise of Dictators
Section 2 – The European Theatre
Section 3 – The Pacific Theatre and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Section 4 – Home Front and the Aftermath

Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions

Section 1 – Birth of the Cold War
Section 2 – Living on the Edge
Section 3 – Kennedy and Cuba

Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions

Unit 16 - Modern America
Section 1 – Great Society and the Civil Rights Movement
Section 2 – The Vietnam War
Section 3 – The Times They are A Changin’
Section 4 – Nixon and Watergate
Section 1 – Energy Crisis and Problems Abroad
Section 2 – Resurgence of Conservatism
Section 3 – Economic Prosperity
Section 4 – Age of Terrorism