| Home |   Teacher’s Page:   Introduction:             This lesson is an exciting, compelling way for students to explore what life was like as a POW by looking at photographs, pictures and poetry that POWs made.  This web-quest assignment is very open in order to allow all teachers to use it.  There is no grading rubric because you can either have students make a very simple newsletter (instead of cutting out pictures, just have them draw them in with a source of where the picture is) or you can have your students create an elaborate newsletter using drawing software and publication software.   National Standards: NCSS-1.2.d    ...guide learners as they systematically employ processes of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past, such as using a variety of sources and checking their credibility, validating and weighing evidence for claims, and searching for causality;   NCSS-2.1.d ...assist the learners in developing historical research capabilities that enable them to formulate historical questions, obtain historical data, question historical data, identify the gaps in available records, place records in context, and construct sound historical interpretations;   Objectives: 1)      Students will be able to analyze and interpret primary sources dealing with POWs in Nazi Germany by the end of this lesson. 2)      Students will be able to create a newsletter which describes what the life of a POW was life by the end of this lesson. 3)      Students will be able to decide which historical data is most important to their assignment by the end of this lesson.   Procedural Steps: 1)      Decide what type of assessment you (as the teacher) want to use. 2)      Decide how in-depth of a newsletter you (as the teacher) want to use. 3)      Describe to students how to use this web quest and your expectations of the assignment. 4)      Convene in the computer lab to complete the assignment. Allow for group time when everyone can create a newsletter.   Jonathan Alt of Des Moines’ Drake University created this lesson (© March 2004). It may be reproduced or modified for educational purposes.