Brainstorm in groups about what Anza's trips must have been like. Comparison of student personal trip in group discussion. Predict, as a class, what problems those originally on historic Anza trails must have experienced. Read Anza's materials in groups to report to class. Students choose specific research they want to work on as their project after reading Web de Anza resources.
Students learn to use new computer technologies.
To Learn About The Anza Expedition . Students were very excited using Web de Anza technology resources to find evidence of important history, i.e. Anza expeditions, in their own community of Tucson, Arizona. At first students were at a loss to tell what they learned about the Anza expedition in a poem. Working individually first with word processing and later with a teacher guided discussion, a viable poem emerged from group contribution and consensus. Similar experience as Lesson 3 for students using Web de Anza.