Students use their Venn Diagrams created in AppleWorks to compare and contrast Laura and Oak Alley. The teacher leads the class in creating a map of the plantation they visited using Neighborhood Map Machine . Students work individually to create a map of a typical plantation. The other partner listens carefully and attempts to recreate the map in a new Neighborhood Map Machine document. The two students compare maps and discuss differences in the two.
Partners reverse roles and repeat the activity.
Students work individually to research a Louisiana plantation using printed materials and web sites. Students take notes on their Plantation Note-taking Guide. Students work individually to create a four-card HyperStudio stack on the plantation they researched. Students should use the Louisiana Plantation HyperStudio Stack Checklist to evaluate their work . Using Community Construction Kit , students build a 3-D model of their plantation.