Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Google Documents Idea
I was thinking that maybe we could have our "students" compare and contrast the lives of people in Kalamazoo with ones of those from a different country. They could pick any country that they want and they could contrast the daily lives of these two people. How much money on average the family/person makes, what foods they eat, what they do for fun, how long they go to school, the average jobs, etc. This would be relatively easy because you could find a ton of information on this online. This would be a great way to educate students about other countries and at the same time the students would realize how privileged they are. I remember doing this in elementary school, what do you think?
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It sounds like fun but I am pretty sure that it us supposed to be related to our topic (local history) so I'm not sure that that would work.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah! I completely forgot about that. Okay, how about if we did the lives of people in Kalamazoo in like 1920 or something compared to today, and then the lived of people in another country in 1920 compared to today and then we could compare and contrast how much they've changed. (I'm assuming that the lives of people in Kalamazoo changed drastically compared to those in another country - like Africa) This may be a little hard though, so we can just do yours! :)
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