Learning to think like Historians using Problem Based Learning Cases to Enhance Globally Focused Uni

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Learning to think like Historians using Problem
Based Learning Cases to Enhance Globally Focused
United States History, Part 1 Course Project
Materials Resources Orientation SAC Learning
Resource CenterCelita DeArmond
Instructor/Reference Distance Learning
Librarian
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• What is Problem Based Learning?
• Problem-based learning is an instructional method
  that challenges students to learn to learn
  working cooperatively in groups to seek solutions
  to problems.

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• Learning Issues
• Define learning issues and develop an action plan
• What questions does the problem raise?
• What do you think you know in order to answer?
• What do you need to find out in order to resolve
  the problem?

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Learning Issues
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• Learning Tools
• Consult library course Web site to review
  research strategies
• Identify resources needed
• Use library databases to help develop an Action
  Plan

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• Problem
• Seventeen years ago on 16 March 1988, the Iraqi
  government under Saddam Hussein bombarded the
  town of Halabja in Southern Kurdistan with
  chemical weapons, mustard, nerve and cyanide
  gases. Within a few hours over 5,000 Kurdish
  civilians including women and children were dead
  and over 10,000 people were injured. Biological
  warfare is a "slippery topic," but the topic is
  not one of recent origin. Rules of warfare (today
  termed "rule of engagement" (ROE) date from the
  sixteenth century. On June 24, 1763, William
  Trent, a trader at Ft. Pitt recorded in his
  journal that during a parly with two Delaware
  Indians, "we gave them two Blankets and an
  Handerchief out of the Small Pox Hospital. I hope
  it will have the desired effect."

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• Learning Group / team work
• A Team of students had four members called
  Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There
  was an important job to be done. Everybody was
  sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could
  have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got
  angry about that because it was everybodys job.
  Everybody thought Anybody could do it but Nobody
  realized that Everybody wouldnt do it. It ended
  up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did
  what anybody could have done. (Gibbs, 1995)

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• Your Task
• Define learning issues and develop an action plan
• Participate in assigned Learning Group discussion
  on the WebCt Bulletin Board (BB) enter via PALS
  portal
• Complete self-directed research
• Participate in completing and delivering group
  report / write up results and submit individual
  report.
• Consult online course calendar for due dates

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• Carol A. Keller, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor, History
• 210-233-2566
• Email ckeller_at_accd.edu
• Celita DeArmond
• Instructor/Reference Distance Learning
  Librarian
• 210-785-6366
• Email cdearmon_at_accd.edu