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Lesson Plan
Technical Aspects of Caring for Our Heritage

TECHNOLOGY GUIDELINES:

Technology Communication Tools (Communication Foundation Skill)

  • Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts and other audiences.
  • Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate and present information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.

Technology Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Tools (Problem Solving Foundation Skill)

  • Students use appropriate technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions.
  • Students employ technology for real world problem solving.
  • Students evaluate the technology selected, the process, and the final results through the use of informed decision-making skills.

Technology Productivity Tools (Resource Access and Utilization Foundation Skill)

  • Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
  • Students use productivity tools to work collaboratively in developing technology-rich, authentic, student-centered products.

Technology Research Tools (Linking and Generating Knowledge Foundation Skill)

  • Students use appropriate technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.
  • Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
  • Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.

TECNHOLOGY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:

Use multimedia tools and desktop publishing to develop and present computer-generated projects for directed and independent learning activities (1, 3).

Use technology tools (e.g., multimedia authoring, writing tools, digital cameras, drawing tools, web tools) to gather information for problem solving, communication, collaborative writing and publishing to create products for various audiences (1, 3, 4).

Use telecommunications and online resources efficiently and effectively to collaborate with peers, experts, and others to investigate curriculum-related problems, issues, and information and to develop solutions or products for various audiences (1, 2, 3, 4).

HARDWARE:

Multimedia Computer with Internet Connection
Printer

SOFTWARE:

Word Processing application
Slide Show presentation application (preferable PowerPoint)

CONTACT INFORMATION

CARING FOR OUR HERITAGE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Colin, Brian and Amery, Curran. Vanishing Histories: 100 Endangered Sites From the World Monuments Watch. Harry N. Abrams, 2001.

Department of the Interior, The Preservation of Historic Architecture: The U.S. Government's Official Guidelines for Preserving Historic Homes. The Lyons Press, 2004

Hosmer, Charles B., Jr. Preservation Comes of Age: From Williamsburg to the National Trust, 1926-1949, 2 vols. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981.

Hosmer, Charles B., Jr. Presence of the Past: A History of the Preservation Movement in the United States before Williamsburg. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons1965.

Lowenthal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Magazines (available at almost any library):

Historic Preservation, published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

Old-House Journal, published by the Old-House Journal Corporation.

Moore, Arthur Cotton. The Powers of Preservation: New Life for Urban Historic Places. McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Murtagh, William J. Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America. Pittstown, JN: The Main Street Press,

Page, Max and Mason, Randall, eds. Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States. Routledge, 2003.

Roddewig, Richard J. "What Is Cultural Tourism?" New Orleans Preservation In Print, July 1988, pp. 5-11.

Rypkema, Donovan D. The Economics of Historic Preservation. National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1994.

Stipe, Robert E. (ed.). A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century. University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Tyler, Norman. Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.