Scrapbooking Through History

Scrapbooking through History

How would any of us know anything about history without someone recording it? Some cultures pass their histories down orally (by word of mouth), others write books, keep diaries, etc. One good way to record history is to scrapbook—much the way you would with a family photo album!

A scrapbook is much more than words and pictures—it is an artistic record of the past. Now for those of you who aren’t artists—don’t worry—I’m not an artist either! Here’s how this will work:

Procedure

1. You will be divided into teams

2. Each team will receive a sport to research

3. Each team will try to use their scrapbook to answer this over-arching question: Compare and contrast the early American origins of the sport with how it evolved to the present day with respect to economic, social, and technological factors.

4. Your scrapbook will consist of 6 total 12”x12” pages:

You will create a title page, as well as one page for each of the following questions:

 Why did the sport change in the way it did?  What were the specific changes (i.e. rules? Innovations? Technological advances? Socio- economic changes?)  How did it change?  Were the changes positive, negative, or both? And why?  Who benefited/suffered from the changes?

5. Each page should have a typed thesis statement that reflects your team’s answer to the question (the title page will answer the over-arching question)

6. The thesis statement will be the only WORDS on the page, the rest of your explanation must be done with images from your sport

Expectations Each page should:  Be well organized  Contain at least one typed thesis  Creative  Well-researched  Relevant!  Spellchecked and proofed for grammar  Demonstrates critical thinking Scrapbook Project Rubric

CATEGORY Grand Slam! Home Run Foul Ball Strike Out Creativity Several of the graphics One or two of the One or two graphics or The student did not or objects used in the graphics or objects objects were made or make or customize any Scrapbook reflect an used in the scrapbook customized by the of the items on the exceptional degree of reflect student student, but the ideas collage. student creativity in creativity in their were typical rather their creation and/or creation and/or than creative display display. Design Graphics are trimmed Graphics are trimmed Graphics have been Graphics are untrimmed to an appropriate size to an appropriate size trimmed to an OR of inappropriate size and interesting shape and interesting shape appropriate size and and/or shape. It appears and are arranged well, and are arranged with shape, but the little attention was given some in front and some items in front arrangement of items is to designing the collage. some behind. Care has and others behind. The not very attractive. It been taken to balance page, however does appears there was not the pictures across the not appear balanced. a lot of planning of the page. item placement. Attention to Theme The student gives a The student gives a The student gives a The student's thesis is reasonable typed reasonable typed fairly reasonable thesis, weak and illustrates thesis that relates to explanation of how the however, the thesis difficulty understanding the questions. For all thesis is related to the does not connect well how to relate items to items, the relationship assigned questions. For with the images used. the assigned theme. is clear without many of the items, the explanation. relationship is clear without explanation. Time and Effort Class time was used Class time was used Class time was not Class time was not used wisely. Much time and wisely. Student could always used wisely, but wisely and the student effort went into the have put in more time student did do some put in no additional planning and design of and effort at home. additional work at effort. the collage. It is clear home. the student worked at home as well as at school. Research Page indicates a high Page indicates a good Page needs more Little research went into degree of research, degree of research, research. Better the page. Images do not with a variety of with most images images could have connect with the thesis primary source images directly relating to the been selected, the of the page theme research seems rushed

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