Webbing and Weaving
Chicago is such an amazing place! Reading all of this information about Chicago is making me want to go there this weekend. Of course, I have absolutely no time for a fun trip right now, even a day trip. Sigh! Maybe over Christmas break.
My search process for information has been pretty successful. I am pleased with the quality of information I have been finding. My local library was a good place to start; I came home with several bags of books on my topic. The downside was that many of them were out of date. It doesn't take long for travel books to be out of date. On the positive side, these books provided me with excellent places to explore on the Internet. After reading about a place or activity in one of the books, I would then check it out online and see how the information compared. Many times, things were slightly different (mainly prices). A couple of places had moved out of the city to a surrounding suburb. A few had closed entirely.
I'm still looking for a way to creatively tie everything together for the final project. I had an "aha!" moment tonight concerning this challenge, but I'm not sure yet. I need to think about it a little more.
My next step in looking for information is going to be Inspire. I want to use the databases that are freely available to all Hoosiers. I am especially interested in what Inspire Kids has to offer on this topic.
More on this next time!
posted by hlbontra @ 8:30 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Heather! I know you are still brainstroming what to do for your final project but if you need any photos I found some great ones! My school is big on using Inspire so I checked it out for you. If you go to Inspire, then images, search for "Chicago" but only check the box marked places (if you check others you get a lot of sports photos). There are some great pictures of the city. Some are recent but some are from decades ago...black and white shopping downtown with buggys! It's a cool historical look at how the city has changed over the years. Good luck! We're almost done!
Hi Heather!
I don't know if you have decided on a project yet, so I thought I'd share my idea. I am researching African safaris and am trying to put together a travel brochure. I thought that this would be a good model that students could look at for ideas before conducting research on a place they would like to visit. I am tying my project to the sixth grade Social Studies standards so that kids might do something similiar on a European location they would like to visit. You could do something similiar and tie to fifth grade standards having kids research a city in the U.S. I am using Microsoft Publisher to create my project. I hope this helps!
Mitch
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