Michigan Deck of Cards

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Michigan Deck of Cards

• A lesson for 4th - 6th Grades
• (Social Studies)
• Designed by
• Lynne Burke
• 
  lmburke_at_Oakland.edu
•  

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Introduction
The Governor of Michigan has asked students all
across Michigan to create a unique travel
brochure to help promote our great state. Your
challenge is to create a Michigan Deck of Cards
highlighting a city in Michigan on each of the
cards. These cards will include information
about the city along with a picture.
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Task

• Your task is to choose a Michigan city to
  research. You will need to download a research
  worksheet to help you organize your information
  and download an image of your city. After you
  have completed your research and have your
  picture saved, you will download your assigned
  card from the PowerPoint template and insert the
  information. When your card is completed, you
  will save your card to the PowerPoint template as
  well as printing it to be laminated. Your task
  should take no longer then 2 weeks to complete.
  Good luck and happy surfing!

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Process 1

• To accomplish this task, follow these steps.
• 1. First, you will be assigned one or two cards
  by your teacher.
• 2. Once you have your card(s), you will need
  to visit a Michigan website to choose your city
  or cities. Choose one of the websites below to
  surf.
• http//www.multimag.com/city/mi/citya.html
• Michigan Cities
• 3. When you have chosen your city, you will need
  to fill out your research paper and download a
  picture for your card. (Instructions on following
  slides).
• 4. When you are finished with the tasks above,
  you will need to go to the Deck of Cards
  PowerPoint template to find your card.
  (Instructions on following slides). See Sample
  Card.
• 5. Once you find your card, you will use the
  PowerPoint directions to insert your picture and
  your information.

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Process 2

• PowerPoint directions
• Open up the Deck of Cards PPT. Template.
• Scroll through until you find your card(s).
• Go to the Menu bar and pull down the Insert menu.
  Go down to Insert text box and click it. You will
  be able to type in your information about your
  city in this box and when you are finished, you
  can move the box towards the bottom of the card.
  Insert another text box at the top of the card
  for the Name of your City.
• Before you insert your picture, make sure that it
  is saved to the desktop or to your personal
  folder (if you have one). Go back to the Insert
  menu and scroll down to insert picture, then
  over to from file. Navigate to the desktop and
  find your picture then press OK. You may need to
  resize your picture by using the handles on the
  corner of the picture. Your picture should be
  centered in the middle of the card. Click here
  for an example.
• Make sure you insert a text box at the very
  bottom and put your name, grade and school in it.
• 6) After your card(s) are finished, press save!

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Process 3

• Downloading Images Instructions
• When you have chosen the picture of your city,
  put your mouse over it and hold it down until a
  menu comes up. Scroll down to Save Image As and
  click on it. You will name your picture (include
  your initials) and save it to the desktop.
  (Macintosh)

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Evaluation

• Your work will be graded using this rubric form.
  Please follow this as a guide to help you to
  complete all of the tasks.

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Conclusion

• Great job! Now you and your friends can use your
  deck of cards to play with and to learn about our
  great state! On behalf of the Governor and
  myself, we hope you enjoyed this project!

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Credits

• I would like to thank professor McEneaney for
  this project. This has been one of the funnest
  classes I have been in thus far.
• Thanks to the following websites
• Michigan.gov
• http//www.multimag.com/city/mi/citya.html
• Michigan Cities
• The IST 396 Site

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Introduction (Teacher)

• The Governor of Michigan has asked students all
  across Michigan to create a unique travel
  brochure to help promote our great state.
• Your challenge is to create a Michigan Deck of
  Cards highlighting a city in Michigan on each of
  the cards. These cards will include information
  about the city along with a picture.

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Learners (Teacher)

• This lesson is geared toward students in forth -
  6th grade social studies. This project is a
  great way to teach Michigan history and the end
  result will be a deck of cards that can passed
  out to different classes so that they too can
  learn about our great state.
• The task is to choose a Michigan city to
  research. Your students will need to download a
  research worksheet to help them organize their
  information and they will need to download an
  image of their city. After they have completed
  their research and have their picture saved, they
  will download their assigned card and insert the
  information. When their card is completed, they
  will save their card to the PowerPoint template
  as well as printing it to be laminated. This
  task should take no longer then 2 weeks to
  complete. Good luck and happy surfing!

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Standards (Teacher)

• Social Studies Standards Addressed
• Standards
• Students will learn about some of the cities of
  Michigan.  They will be required to research and
  give a brief history of their chosen city.  The
  students will also be creating a deck of cards
  with the information that the class collects. 
  This will relate them to Michigan's history and
  achieve a better understanding of our great
  state. Additionally, the students will use
  creative thinking and production.  They will
  compare their cities by playing cards with their
  new Michigan deck of cards and by the PowerPoint
  presentation that they created. The lesson is
  focused on Social Studies and brief description
  of the standards are below
• Social Studies
• --------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------
• Social studies is the integrated study of the
  social sciences to prepare young people to become
  responsible citizens. 
•  
• The purpose of social studies is to develop
  social understanding and civic efficiency (the
  readiness and willingness to assume citizenship
  responsibilities and to make informed and
  reasoned decisions for the public good as
  citizens of a democratic society.)
•  

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Continued The social studies curriculum builds
four capacities in young people disciplinary
knowledge, thinking skills, commitment to
democratic values, and citizen participation. So
cial Studies Content Standards and Benchmarks To
provide schools and parents with a set of
learning expectations, parents, educators,
business leaders and university professionals
developed the Michigan Curriculum Framework . 
The Michigan Social Studies Content Standards and
Benchmarks are part of this framework. (the
above was retrieved from the Michigan.gov
website) Michigan.gov
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Process 1 (Teacher)

• To accomplish this task, follow these steps.
• 1. First, you will be assigned one or two cards
  by your teacher.
• 2. Once you have your card(s), you will need
  to visit a Michigan website to choose your city
  or cities. Choose one of the websites below to
  surf.
• http//www.multimag.com/city/mi/citya.html
• Michigan Cities
• 3. When you have chosen your city, you will need
  to fill out your research paper and download a
  picture for your card. (Instructions for
  downloading pictures.)
• 4. When you are finished with the tasks above,
  you will need to go to the Deck of Cards
  PowerPoint template to find your card.
  (Instructions for this Template.)
• 5. Once you find your card, you will use the
  PowerPoint directions to insert your picture and
  your information.

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Process 2 (Teacher)

• PowerPoint directions
• Open up the Deck of Cards PPT. Template.
• Scroll through until you find your card(s).
• Go to the Menu bar and pull down the Insert menu.
  Go down to Insert text box and click it. You will
  be able to type in your information about your
  city in this box and when you are finished, you
  can move the box towards the bottom of the card.
  Insert another text box at the top of the card
  for the Name of your City.
• Before you insert your picture, make sure that it
  is saved to the desktop or to your personal
  folder (if you have one). Go back to the Insert
  menu and scroll down to insert picture, then
  over to from file. Navigate to the desktop and
  find your picture then press OK. You may need to
  resize your picture by using the handles on the
  corner of the picture. Your picture should be
  centered in the middle of the card. Click here
  for an example.
• Make sure you insert a text box at the very
  bottom and put your name, grade and school in it.
• 6) After your card(s) are finished, press save!

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Process 3 (Teacher)

• Downloading Images Instructions
• When you have chose the picture of your city,
  put your mouse over it and hold it down until a
  menu comes up. Scroll down to Save Image As and
  click on it. You will name your picture (include
  your initials) and save it to the desktop.
  (Macintosh)

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Resources (Teacher)

• This lesson will require at least two weeks to
  complete. The following schedule can be used to
  ensure that all tasks are completed in the
  allowed time frame.
• You will also need to make available to your
  class the following
• 1) Computer Lab time
• 2) World Book and atlas
• 3) Printer with color ink
• 4) PowerPoint Software

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Research Worksheet

• Name___ ______________________________________
  Return to process
  page_

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Evaluation (Teacher)
Evaluation

• Your work will be grading using this rubric
  form. Please follow this as a guide to help you
  to complete all of the tasks.

Your work will be graded using this rubric form.
Please follow this as a guide to help you to
complete all of the tasks.
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Conclusions (Teacher)

• I hope you and your class enjoyed this
  challenge. Not only did your students learn
  about our great state, they did so by using
  technology along with their basic knowledge of
  Social Studies and Language Arts. The
  possibilities for this project are endless. You
  could have your class do this project every year,
  assigning them cities that have not been done yet
  and soon will have many many decks of cards to
  learn Michigan history from. Other classes in
  your school could also do this project and you
  could exchange cards to learn about the cities
  that they chose. Maybe you could substitute the
  cities and use the cards for other information
  about Michigan, such as symbols. What a great way
  to learn more about our state!

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Credits (Teacher)

• I would like to thank professor McEneaney for
  this project. This has been one of the funnest
  classes I have been in thus far.
• Thanks to the following websites
• Michigan.gov
• http//www.multimag.com/city/mi/citya.html
• Michigan Cities
• The IST 396 Site

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This is Michigan
Add Information about your city here.