Curricular+Unit+Guidelines

===One of the requirements for the 2013 Summer Institute is for each participant to develop or implement curricular materials that reflect the central idea that studying the past, including studying the histories of cultures in contact and interaction, is essential to understanding the present: ===
 * __Curricular Unit Guidelines __**

===Option 1: Develop curricular materials or other educational resources based on content from the Summer Institute, pilot this curriculum in your classroom, and share the materials locally and nationally. You will be expected to administer the Institute’s pre-test and post-test to your students. ===

===Option 2: Implement curricular materials developed by Institute staff based on content from the Summer Institute and __develop a lesson extension to that curriculum__ to be shared locally and nationally. You will be expected to administer the Institute’s pre-test and post-test to your students. ===

===When completing the project, please keep in mind that the curricular unit will serve as a valuable resource for other educators in the Institute and for ones who did not attend the Summer Institute. Participants should develop lessons that are in compliance with the Common Core Curriculum standards. Upon completion of the Institute’s curriculum implementation and assessment requirements you will be awarded a $400 stipend for your participation. === ===Participants will work with the Teacher Advisor Elise Weisenbach to generate materials for publication on the PIER and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History websites. Please submit your proposal to Elise Weisenbach on July 12, 2013 and email the completed unit to Elise Weisenbach (eweisenbach@sbcglobal.net) by September 15, 2013. ===

1. Introduction that includes:

 * ===Title of the curricular unit ===
 * ===Your name, school, subject area, grade level ===
 * ===Time frame ===
 * ===Number of lessons within the unit ===
 * ===Brief narrative describing the unit ===
 * ===Teaching objectives ===
 * ===Essential Questions--most important concepts students should learn from this unit ===
 * ===Lesson Specific Assessments ===

4. Reference materials
===<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Submit via email to eweisenbach@sbcglobal.net <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> with your last name and title of the unit. ===

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">For example Weisenbach_Native Peoples and Europeans in Contact
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Pre-post assessment questions: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The intent is for you to pose one question to your students BEFORE you begin teaching your lessons, and then the same question again AFTER. If you have not yet begun teaching your lessons and you are willing to try this, here are three questions to choose from: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The bit in brackets in Q1 and Q2 is optional, in case you think your students would do better with some prompts. Feel free to mix and match the exact wording. The more important thing is that you ask the exact same question each time (once now, once after you teach it). You can collect hard copies (or photocopies) and mail them to me (mailing address below), or have students answer the question electronically and then compile their answers into a single document that you can e-mail to me. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">If you have already begun teaching, or you simply prefer not to participate in this assessment, you are welcome to administer your own assessment of student learning. In this case, it is fine if the assessment is only done once, AFTER the lessons are taught, but please let me know your proposed method.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Assessment Questions **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11pt;">1. What is the cultural legacy of the early modern encounters (for example, in the 16th and 17th centuries) between Europeans and indigenous American cultures? In a short answer response, discuss three examples[, and consider topics like food, language, art and faith]. **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11pt;">2. How is our world different because of the contact between Europeans and indigenous American cultures? In a short answer response, discuss three examples[, and consider topics like food, language, art and faith]. **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 11pt;">3. What were the political, economic and social consequences of the early modern contact (for example, in the 16th and 17th centuries) between Europeans and indigenous American cultures? In a short answer response, discuss at least one example of each type of consequence. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">David Heiser <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Head of Education and Outreach <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">PO Box 208118, New Haven, CT, 06520-8118 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">(203) 432-3777