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Seabrook Farm. Cannery workers...

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Lesson Evaluation

Develop a rubric on your own or with the students.

  1. Students demonstrate understanding of interviewing techniques and oral traditions through a written essay about their interview and through their multimedia project.
  2. Students successfully prepare a multimedia presentation.
  3. Students present their local history project to the class in a clear and informative manner in order that other students in the class can write a summary and a critique of their presentation.
  4. Students submit a self-evaluation clarifying what they learned and what materials and experiences were valuable in learning about local history.