Process Page for Teachers

Dear Teachers,
    This unit is intended to supplement an in depth study of slavery and the Underground Railroad.  We make the  following suggestions to aide you and your students through this webquest and unit.
 
 
 

Before the webquest:
 

• Teacher should explore this webquest and corresponding links to become familiar with tasks and information.
• Teacher should assign groups of 4 students to work together.  Students will decide which task to complete.
• Teacher should check with each group to be sure that every group has someone completing each task.  (If there needs to be more than 4 in a group, our suggestion is to have 2 people work as news reporters and require that they complete more than 3 articles.
• It may also be helpful to have a higher level student working as the news reporter.)
• Teacher should discuss the webquest with students and give each student a copy of the rubric so they know all that is expected of them.
• Teacher should give students a timeline of activities and a final due date to keep students on track of completing tasks.

During the webquest:
 

• Teacher should set up a resource center for students in the classroom consisting of trade books, encyclopedias,  maps, and other relevant items for student use.
• Teacher should actively monitor students' progress to assess where students are in the webquest and make adaptations or suggestions to students as needed.

After the webquest:

• Teacher needs to give students time to prepare and present their final presentation (diorama, role play, etc).  *Be sure that each person in the group is presenting some information orally.