Ancient Civilization Resources and Links to Examples

Hello everyone! This webpage is dedicted to our project and the resources you will need to complete the designed task. In here you will find all of the sources for information and some instructional videos on how to make the tools you will need in order to create the timeline and venn diagram. 

This project is Inquiry Based, which means that you will be doing the research, creation, and presentation without much help from the teacher. This is a great way to have you dive into the material and engage with the Ancient Civilizations in a way that cannot be achieved strictly by lecture. This assignment will force you to consistently engage with the material from each group in an in depth fashion. This website will provide you with reliable sources to gather your information, screencast of how to do the different parts of the project and other tools to assist you in completing the assignment. 

Here you will find an outline of all of the task you wil need to complete with the appropriate links to visit in order to complete each required task. Please explore all of these task and links to find the inforamtion that best completes this assignment. Each and every link has different information/ideas, so make sure to visit and check out each of the links for all below tasks. 

Task 1: 

Students explore online information that is gathered in an artifact  webquest for the students to easily access about each of the Ancient Civilizations and Indian groups being discussed.

http://mayaincaaztec.com/

https://www.classzone.com/net_explorations/U4/U4_article1.cfm

http://www.incamayanaztec.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Lp0KrQTqM

Indian Sources:

http://www.native-languages.org/languages.htm

http://www.historyonthenet.com/native_americans/tribes.htm

http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/native-american-cultures

Task 2:

Students collect data

Google Docs

https://padlet.com

Task 3:

The Venn Diagram, Power Point

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-a-Venn-diagram-d746a2ce-ed61-47a7-93fe-7c101940839d

https://www.meta-chart.com/venn

http://bioinformatics.lu/venn.php

Task 4:

Timeline

https://www.officetimeline.com/download

http://www.capzles.com/?utm_campaign=elearningindustry.com&utm_source=%2Ftop-10-free-timeline-creation-tools-for-teachers&utm_medium=link

http://www.myhistro.com

Task 5

Presentation

Microsoft Suite

https://prezi.com/ 

Here we will have links to the examples of creating the Venn Diagram and Timeline. These are uploaded to a youtube account. All you will have to do is copy and paste the below links into the web browser and the video will be brought up. The Venn Diagrm video is 2 minutes long and teh Timeline video is 

Venn Diagram Screencast: 

[video:https://youtu.be/c4vpgI1mc1I]

(copy link into browser)

Timeline Screencast: 

[video:https://youtu.be/B6IwJ4YVoOk]

You will be evaluated on both completion and how factual your presentation is. All of the task will need to be completed and placed into your presentation. The information that you put into your different tools should be factual and pulled from the website links that were provided under the task tab of this WebQuest. Below you will find the rubric that you will be graded on. Please use this rubric when putting together each step of this project. 

On this page you will find screenshots of a sample presentation for you to base your project off of. Understand that this is an example to guide you. Your presentation power point should be more in depth and contain all of the required in depth characteristics and acheivements of each civilization. Here is the link to see the exmple timeline http://www.myhistro.com/user-profile/joshua.snider