Alexis Hernandez TLED 430 Sept.

11, 2017

TPACK Template

Subject Virginia & U.S. History

Grade Level 11th

Learning Objective VUS.2 The student will describe how early European
exploration and colonization resulted in cultural
Content

interactions among Europeans, Africans, and

American Indians.

Activity With this activity, students will create a comic strip showing
how Europeans and indigenous peoples exchanged cultures
and ideas. The student will explain how both groups
benefitted/suffered from these exchanges.

The teacher will go over major exchanges, such as the

transmission of diseases, crops and livestock. At least one of
those three elements must be included in every project.

The student has the freedom to be specific with which

exchange he or she would like to address. It is the students
job to bring this encounter to life and provide his or her
rendition of what the interactions were like as the SOL calls
for.

Each comic must have pictures and words telling a story of the
exchange. The students will refrain from inappropriate diction
within their projects: no profanity. The student will be
realistic within reason in their descriptions. The assignment
may be organized however the student wishes, as long as it is
Pedagogy

apparent and clear that there is reference to each specific

interaction among groups (Europeans and Africans, Europeans
and American Indians).
Technology The students will use a site online called toondoo.com that will
Techno

allow them to create and personalize a comic strip for free.

logy

Link to the example Here is an example of an appropriate comic. The purpose of

product this assignment is to prove that students comprehend the
cultural interactions and will remember them in a fun way!

http://www.toondoo.com/View.toon?param=11465745