See Plantation Information handout. Students take notes using note-taking guide. The students take a virtual field trip to Laura, Oak Alley and Magnolia Mound plantations by visiting their web sites. 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.