Each small group resulting work will be part of larger timeline of the overall Anza Colonizing Expedition. Given access to primary source documents of the Juan Bautista de Anza Colonizing Expedition of 1775-76, students will discover characteristics of the land, indigenous people, and Anza Expedition activities to create an understandable history of this event in Western North America. Students will produce written and visual work acceptable for a timeline web site of the Anza Colonizing Expedition. Each Social Studies class is given select dates for small groups to historically research concerning the Juan Bautistia de Anza Colonizing Expedition. Each group is to make an artistic visual in terms of a poster that highlights an event or symbolizes the days of the Expedition which a small group researched.
Posters can be of whatever medium the group chooses- ink, pencil, water color, chalk.
Posters should clearly have Expedition dates on them at top of paper and be well prepared for community and web page display. A school web site can be created as a calendar table grid. A design could include a welcome page with corresponding links in a table to small group research of select days of individual narrative summaries and artistic visual based on primary sources of the Anza Colonizing Expedition. Evaluation of Student Learning Evaluation of Lesson 1. Students, in small groups, produced 60 case studies of historical inquiry of the Anza Colonizing Expedition.