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**PBL Projects - Social Studies**
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**Your name: Maryellen Bolock** **Project name: Memory Games/11th and 12 grade students** **Secondary Content area (if applicable): Math, for the conversion of collection data to percentages and charts.** **Challenge or Driving Question: How does age affect our ability to remember information?**  **Project Summary: Students will learn about the types, stages and processes of memory. In teams of four, they will research the type of testing that is used in the field of psychology to test memory. They will then use that information and instructions from the teacher to create and implement their own test to several different age groups, using both the interview and the test results to document their finding about if and how age does affect memory. They will collect the findings from all of the teams of students involved and compare results with the other teams, each one writing in the scientific method, the results of their finding and formulating a class theory on the relationship of age to memory.**


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Jill Regenos
 * Project Name**: Saving the Gold by Making Firestone Green
 * Secondary Content Area**: U.S. History - 10th Grade

__State Benchmarks__ Citizenship Rights and Responsibilities A. Analyze ways people achieve governmental change, including political action, social protest and revolution - describe the ways in which government policy has been shaped and set by the influence of political parties, interest groups, lobbyists, the media and public opinion with emphasis on e. environmental legislation f. business regulation g. educational policy B. Explain how individual rights are relative, not absolute, and describe the balance between individual rights, the rights of others, and the common good.

Social Studies Skills & Methods A. Evaluate the reliability and credilbility of sources - determine the credibility of sources by considering the following a. the qualifications and reputation of the writer b. agreement with other credible sources c. recognition of stereotypes d. accuracy & consistency of sources e. the circumstances in which the author prepared the sources

Geography A. Analyze the cultural, physical, economic and political characteristics that define regions and describe reasons that regions change over time. - explain how perceptions and characteristics of geographic regions in the United States have changed over time including a. urban areas b. wilderness c. farmland d. centers of industry and technology

B. Analyze geographic changes brought about by human activity using appropriate maps and other geographic data -describe how changes in technology, transportation and communication affect the location and patterns of economic activities and use of productive resources C. Analyze the patterns and processes of movement of people, products and ideas -analyze the geographic processes that contributed to changes in American society including a. industrialization b. urbanization and suburbanization c. immigration


 * Challenging or Driving Question:** How can Firestone High School students create a green school?


 * Project Summary**

Students will be given a choice of historical examples of environmental legislation or proposed environmental legislation to select from. Students then work with a partner/in a small group to research the historical events/setting leading up to the historical environmental legislation or proposed environmental legislation. Students then work with a partner/in a small group to research a current event related to proposed/enacted environmental legislation that is related to the historical legislation they researched. Students utilize their research to prepare and plan a presentation where they inform about the historical legislation and compare it to the current legislation. Rubrics will be provided that include timeframes for completion. Students will be encouraged to utilize numerous technology tools to complete the project.

Examples of historical legislation include:

Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965 Water Quality of 1965 Clean Air Act of 1970 Clean Water Act of 1972 Endangered Species Act of 1973 Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1976 Clean Water Act Amendments of 1978 Clean Air Act Amendments of 1978 Oil Pollution Act of 1990 Healthy Forests Initiative of 2003


 * __Name: __**** Gina Llewellyn **
 * __Project Title:__ 21st Century Ellet High School**
 * __Project Idea:__ Students will design, plan, research, promote and present ideas for a new Ellet High School facility.**
 * __Driving Question:__ How can Ellet High School students solve the problem of a currently deteriorating high school building?**
 * Content:**
 * **Environmental sciences**
 * **Fiscal responsibility**
 * **Technology**
 * **Ratios and proportions**
 * **Professional and/or persuasive writing**
 * **Effective communication**
 * Major Student Products:**
 * **Scale drawing/model/floor plan**
 * **Website-testimonials/history of school**
 * **On-line surveys**
 * **Sitemap**
 * **Geological report**
 * **Debates**
 * **Presentation to Board of Education, ODE, city council**
 * **Brochure**
 * **Interviews with students and staff of current Ellet and other newer buildings**