Summary
Students will research and create a timeline on the American Negro Baseball league and the integration of collegiate and professional sports. Researching, using a variety of different media web sites student will learn a historical perspective of sports and integrating various races and ethnicities in sports such as basketball, football and a sport the student chooses. Students will use web 2.0 tools such as: voice thread, capzles, screen cast-o-matic, tiki-toki and wallwisher or any other web design tool available to the student and design a timeline or historical calendar as their assignment.
TIPC Ratings
Ideal/target category was evident in this lesson from the background information presented to the students. A movie based on a true story of basketball integration, viewing television news clips, online magazine articles allowed the students the opportunities to learn that racial tension was apparent in all aspects of society, not just schools, businesses and neighborhoods. Students used advanced search techniques such as searching for primary sources based on date and searching by images, then filtering the results based on black and white images and similar images.
This lesson falls in the ideal/target category because the students used groups that they chose to collaborate on their time line and communicate their ideas and research through the web tool of their liking. Students had to post their research using the web tools appropriate “bubble, block, title line” etc.. Students were able to comment using the web tool guidelines for making comments and or suggestions. The original work was then submitted for peer review to the US History classes for their review and comments, finally the projects will be reviewed by a marketing head of the Richmond Flying Squirrels baseball organization.
This lesson falls in the Ideal/target category. Students researched a topic that was uncomfortable to them; many students didn’t understand the reason behind the American Negro Baseball league. Students were challenged by researching a topic that had deeper meaning than baseball, the social and economic stereotypes behind Negro baseball. To many students baseball is Americas past time, they didn’t realize the history, the struggles the black players went through to just play a game. Most players were treated poorly by the community in which they lived and once integration occurred in major league baseball, players continued to be mistreated due to the color of their skin, not their playing ability. This particular lesson was driven by student-led discussion and self-reflection. Students engaged in questioning each other and conversing about these struggles. Students even discussed how it related to situations they have encountered in their own lives and athletic careers thus far. Students used this information to reflect on what it must have been like in the era of the Negro Baseball League. Additionally, students in the US history classes provided feedback so students could create a more polished final product and better understand a different perspective through the process.
This lesson falls in the Ideal/target category. This lesson falls in the Ideal/Target category. Students created a timeline using a web 2.0 tool of their choosing. They incorporated information from conversations and in depth research into the timeline. Many extended the parameters of the assignment to include their interpretations of moments on the timeline based on their own reflections and experiences. Students analyzed information and collected it in the form of a timeline, expressed in a variety of different mediums.
