This is an interesting way to teaching _Esperanza Rising_ to your students. The links on the Dustbowl, migrant farmwork, and history of Mexico are useful, and your students will find them engaging.
Type of Material:
Presentation
Recommended Uses:
This material is designed for teachers and aspiring teachers who teach a unit about the Great Depression and its impacts in the American West and Mexico.
Technical Requirements:
None.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Teachers can add these learning goals to their own lesson plans:
Describe the Great Depresssion through the eyes of a young Mexican Girl
Describe dustbowl disaster through the eyes of migrant Mexican farmworkers.
Describe the history of Mexico.
Target Student Population:
Teachers and aspiring teachers.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
This is an superb teacher guide for teaching about the Great Depression and the Dustbowl from a different perspective.
Concerns:
Although the content is excellent, it contains a lot of links to external resources. The material needs to be monitored by the author to ensure that they remain current.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
There are 3 lesson plans accompanying a wealth of background material. The learning objectives are easy to note from lesson plans. While the main audience are teachers who deliver the content, the background material is targeted toward middle-schoolers with materials that cross discplines: history, poetry, culture and more.
Concerns:
None
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
This is a website with an highly intuitive interface. The material is all on one page and very easy to navigate. The colors are friendly and pleasing. The contrast of colors is conforms to accessible text. The creator of this site added a note at the end regarding permission to use a photograph from the Library of Congress online collection. This is a good model for students, showing that you should not copy and paste pictures from the Internet without permission.
Concerns:
The only issue with usability is the potential for dead-end external links.
Other Issues and Comments:
None. Excellent content that is very-well organized and easy to follow.
Creative Commons:
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