For World War II I gave my students some essential questions and big ideas. I decided this year that instead of doing the traditional go through the battes we would be doing different activities. One of them will be for the students to create their own digital textbook. This can take on issues from the war that the students deem important as well as those from the essential questions. We are also doing a little competition where the best group will get a badge on Edmodo, for a little extra fun.
To start, we went through the EQ/BI and discussed the points. Then, we brainstormed what was wrong with textbooks today, for example point of view. Then in groups, the students brainstormed what they would want from a textbook.
Next up will be the research. The students are going to find primary sources, rewrite accounts, and find pictures and videos to include in their digital text. We are going to upload the PDF into Flipsnack for the finished product and share.
For the contest, we are going to tweet out the links and see who gets the most positive feedback on their product, from our class and others.
Listening to the groups today, I am very excited to see the finished product. The students were coming up with great ideas about different POV and different groups of people to get perspectives from, some that are never addressed in textbooks.
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