The Henry Ford Institute - named after the man who helped create the assembly line and founded the Ford Motor Company during America's Industrial Revolution - funds and presents many educational history projects. One of these projects is the Exhibit builder (2010), which people can use to create their own virtual history exhibits. There are many image collections the builder can select from, and they have topics such as factories, railroads, propoganda posters, workers, and more. Each image wall the builder arranges is accompanied by text the builder writes. For my students, an individual or group would select a topic from the American Industrialization era for an exhibit. The completed projects would be shared with fellow students in an oral presentation, and I would require a separate references sheet for the project. This website provides an activity that taps into creativity, higher-level thinking skills, and student-centered work.
Exhibit builder. (2010). Retrieved from
http://collections.thehenryford.org/ExhibitHome.aspx
http://collections.thehenryford.org/ExhibitHome.aspx
You have such a variety of types of resources, all of which are hands-on and demonstrate your understanding of ELL students' need for support while reading (i.e. lots of visuals, different types of texts, activity reading process, etc.). This unit is particularly great, as students not only read about and really live out the Industrial Revolution while improving their English language skills, but also, due to the numerous online resources, truly get an education in technological literary. It would be interesting to somehow make a connection with a project or particular text that the students do/read in their Social Studies classes with this subject matter- perhaps there could be some collaboration here?
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. Some type of content-area crossing would be great. I actually chose this topic because one of the ELL students in my school will be learning some of this later. Hopefully, some of this will help her.
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