Interview local businesspeople, neighbors, postal delivery people, and police. Identify retailers who have worked in the neighborhood over a period of years. Videotape or photograph the neighborhood as it looks today. Include the maps in a multimedia presentation, along with pictures, video clips, and the students' written notes. Each group will decide how to display its information.
Presentations can be in the form of news reports on the changes over time in a neighborhood.
Students should be able to give an oral presentation to their class, describing how certain features of their neighborhoods have changed over a period of years and how the perceptions of the people they interviewed differed. In addition, students will show a map, a poster, or a videotape that complements the oral report. In schools with computers, digital cameras, and scanners, students can create multimedia presentations to share on the World Wide Web. Gwen Faulkner of Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Washington, D.C., contributed classroom ideas for Standard 6. All rights reserved.