Overview and Background: Unit: School Bus Tour of Kansas

Name: Connie Moore

Cheney Elementary : Grades 3

Title:	School Bus Tour of Kansas
Topics:	Kansas History, Geography
Time Frame:	2 weeks
Start Date:	January

Other Designers: Joyce Foley, and Laurie Thisius

Summary:
This unit looks at the landmarks of Kansas and their importance.

Print Materials Needed: Kansas Map

Resources:

Kansas Tour

http://www.kansasphototour.com/clickmap.htm

2 State Capitol Blg.

9 Native American Heritage Museum State Hist Site

12 Earhart Birthplace Museum

16 Constitution Hall State Historic Site/Lane University

22 Rice Stone Bridge

34 Mine Creek Battlefield State Historic Site

37 The Eisenhower Center

40 Pawnee Rock State Historical Site

41 Sante Fe Trail Research Center and Museum

47 Mid America Air Museum

57 Northwest Three Corners Monument

59 Elephant Rock Natural Arch

60 -"Home on the Range" Cabin

62 Sternberg Museum of Natural History

70 First Territorial Capitol State Hist Site

73 Kansas Vietnam Veterans Memorial

90 Beaumont's Wooden Water Tower

94 Pike Monument

111 Winfield's Vietnam War Memorial

117 John Brown Museum State Historic Site

119 George Washington Carver Homestead Monument

122 Dalton Defenders Museum

124 Mennonite Heritage Museum

129 Stauth Memorial Museum

131 Morton County WPA Stone Bridge

132 Ness County Stone Bridge

Resource Attachments:	http://www.cheney268.com/3rd/Landmarks/KansasLandmarks.htm
Internet Resource Links: http://www.ink.org/public/kdot/burtransplan/mileage.html http://www.kansasphototour.com/clickmap.htm

Notes:

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	KS
Title:	History, Geography
Standard(s):	Kansas History: Benchmark 2: The student understands the significance of landmarks that are important in Kansas’s history. Geography Standard: Benchmark 1: Maps & Location: The student uses maps, graphic representations, tools, and technologies to locate, use, and present information about places.

Understandings:

The history of a state is a progression of events that reflect growth, struggle, and change over time.
Landmarks represent the end result of these major historical events.
People tend to preserve things that are meaningful to them.

Maps show relative locations among physical places.

Essential Questions:

What events in Kansas’s history helped define the state’s landmarks?
Why are landmarks located where they’re located?
Why do we have landmarks?

Knowledge and Skills:

K

-How to locate major landmarks in the state of Kansas.
-The background or events leading to the preservation of each historical landmark or monument.

S

-Use technological resources to locate a list of significant landmarks of Kansas.

-Use map scale measurements to plan and diagram a trip to at least 4 different locations in the state.
-Use a graphic organizer to show the location and historical significance of each landmark selected for the museum.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Students will be given the task of designing pages for a virtual museum of Kansas, reflecting significant historical landmarks or sites in Kansas. They will select a landmark from four of the five regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Central, Northwest, and Southwest. They will include the name, the location, a graphic, its age or date, and its historical importance.

Student Directions:

You have been hired by the Kansas Department of Tourism to create a brochure of Kansas, reflecting significant historical landmarks or sites in the state. Pick one landmark from four of the five regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Central, Northwest, and Southwest. Create a brochure that includes a picture of the landmark, its location, age or date, and an explanation of its historical importance. Your brochure should be accurate and comprehensive.

Rubric:

http://www.cheney268.com/3rd/Landmarks/KansasLandmarks.htm

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

As an assessment, on a different day, students will create an individual “Events In Kansas History Timeline” from a scrambled document.

As an assessment, students will present their maps and route traveled between the selected cities.

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

Show the class pictures of a Kansas landmark.

Students will be given the task of designing pages for a brochure of Kansas, reflecting significant historical landmarks or sites in Kansas. They will select a landmark from four of the five regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Central, Northwest, and Southwest. They will include the name, the location, a graphic, its age or date, and its historical importance.

As a class, create “Events In Kansas History Timeline” of the landmarks each student found. As an assessment, on a different day, students will create an individual “Events In Kansas History Timeline” from a scrambled document.

Students will select at least 3 historical events (from a teacher list). Students will write expository paragraphs that explain the historical significance of the events.

Create a map of Kansas that shows at least four landmarks from the five regions. Students will label landmark locations on the map and use website to calculate mileage.

As an assessment, students will present their maps and route traveled between the selected cities.