Exchange their findings with students in other states. As students continue to collect, analyze, and research related materials, the progress of their project is monitored by their peers. Classroom teams meet for a monthly roundtable discussion and evaluation of their projects, using their criteria for assessment. The peer review process may be used in evaluating the final project, the written analysis, and the oral presentation. By the end of the ninth week of class, each student produces a written statement describing his or her topic and outlining a plan for collecting materials Students turn in peer review after each monthly roundtable.
Teachers evaluate oral presentations of final projects.
The peer review process may be used to evaluate the final archival collection and the oral presentation. Classroom teams make printouts of at least three sample history Web pages, including two student-produced pages and one Web page introducing a related American Memory collection. Each student creates an Internet Search Log. Each student does a Web Page Evaluation Worksheet on one of the team's selected Web pages. Students complete a rough draft of their Web page.