1. Active
1.1. Metacognition
1.1.1. Students asked to relate facts to present day life
1.2. Group Work
1.2.1. Students assist eachother with technological tasks
1.2.1.1. ex. finding websites
1.2.2. Social interaction
1.2.3. Everyone in group is equally reponsible for project
1.2.4. Students decide what they want to do, builds on strengths
1.3. Hands on learning
1.3.1. Students develop their own understanding through research
2. Challenging
2.1. Connect learning to prior knowledge
2.1.1. How is life today the same and how is it different?
2.2. Group presentation
2.3. Teacher probes students at beginning to see what they know and what they want to know about the missions.
3. Meaningful
3.1. Longtitude/ Latitude
3.1.1. Found Location of the missions
3.1.2. Personalized learning to be relevant
4. Value Based
4.1. Ethics of how Aboriginals were treated @ mission
4.1.1. Questions posed by teacher
4.1.1.1. Was it right?
4.1.1.2. How would you feel?
4.2. Group work
4.2.1. Collaborative skill set
5. Integrative
5.1. Mulitidisciplinary
5.1.1. History
5.1.1.1. Mission settlements
5.1.1.2. Saints
5.1.2. Sociology
5.1.2.1. society of Aboriginal peoples
5.2. Cross Curricular
5.2.1. Technology
5.2.1.1. Slide show
5.2.1.2. imovie
5.2.2. Language Arts
5.2.2.1. Writing assignment: description of settlement
5.2.3. Art
5.2.3.1. Paintings
5.2.3.2. Model
5.2.3.3. Poster