Time II Lesson Plan

Friday at 8 p.m.

Add three GIS points that include dates and properly formatted html links to credible sources.

Learning objectives.

At the end of this lesson you will be able to:

  1. Create three records in an Omeka Timeline that correctly locates the period, geography of three people, places, ideas, or objects from ancient Babylonia, the Indus River Valley, or ancient Persia.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of ancient legal and religious texts in their societies.
  3. Locate a relevant and credible website for our three societies.
  4. Evaluate the credibility of historical websites.
  5. Link a website to a record in Omeka through the HTML editor.
  6. Explain what challenges you face in evaluating credible web sources.
  7. Generate a learning objective for yourself.

Activities to complete project

  1. Log in to our Omeka site
  2. Navigate to the Neatline plugin.
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  3. Click on the Gods and Laws II (Revenge of the Gods) text to open the Neatline editor. Image
  4. Now that your are in the the editor, review the readings for this week on the Ramayana, Zoroastrianism, and the Code of Hammurabi. Search the web for three, different, credible websites related to these three subjects. Remember the PISA test (Publication, Institution, Sources, Author).
  5. For our work in Omeka, we will focus on four themes in history: ideas, organizing people, material culture, and gender. Chose an item from your researched websites that relates to one of these themes.
  6. Create a New Record for each of your three items using the edit page and clicking on “New Record.”
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  7. Create a point on a map that has a date. Give your point a Title (name) that relates to your website. Do not put the website URL here. IMAGE
  8. In the “Body” box, click on “Edit HTML”. That will bring up an HTML editor that looks like this:
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    Post the link to the website you found that relates to the Ramayana, Zoroastrianism, and the Code of Hammurabi and one of the four themes (ideas, organizing people, material culture, and gender).
  9. In the “Body” html editing box, write a short analysis (75 words) of why you believe the website linked will contribute to the classes understanding of ancient Babylon, India, or Iran. Be sure to sign your name in the “Body” box for each of your entries.
  10. Review each of your three new entries for accuracy (date, geographic placement, link, full analysis). You may wish to play with the graphic design to distinguish your points from other students.
  11. Write a learning goal (what I want to learn from this lesson) in the text box.

Time expectation:

I expect this assignment will take 1.5–3 hours to complete.

DH FAQs

How am I to find credible websites?

This is the most important question you will face in college. The answer starts in this class and ends when you stop paying attention to the web, so, never.

Seriously, Jack, how do I distinguish credible from not?

Use the PISA test (publication, institution, sources, author) and see the video explainer online. There is not an easy way to find credible information, you must always use your critical thinking skills to evaluate credibility.

Grading Criteria

  1. Student accurately created three records in an Omeka Timeline that correctly locates the period, geography, and historical significance of three people, places, ideas, or objects from ancient Babylonia, the Indus River Valley, or ancient Persia.
  2. Student demonstrated an understanding of the importance of ancient legal and religious texts in their societies.
  3. Student locate a relevant and credible website for our three societies.
  4. Student evaluate the credibility of historical websites.
  5. Student accurately linked three different websites to a record in Omeka through the HTML editor.
  6. Student generated a learning objective for yourself.