Brief Description Objectives Materials and Resources Activity Description

• Grade Level: High School, Middle School

• Subject Area: Social Studies

Brief Description

    Students will view the film and write guided responses in journals. Journal responses will be shaped by a set of questions that students will use through out the unit to evaluate resources they use. Students will begin to note possible inconsistencies in the film.
Objectives

    Students will watch the Disney movie Pocahontas as a piece of historical evidence.
Materials and Resources Needed

    In developing our lessons and activities, we made some assumptions about the hardware and software that would be available in the classroom for teachers who visit the LETSNet website. We assume that teachers using our Internet-based lessons or activities have a computer (PC or Macintosh) with the necessary hardware components - mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc. - as well as software - operating system, TCP/IP software, networking or dial-up software, e-mail and a World Wide Web client program, preferably Netscape, but perhaps Mosaic or Lynx. In the section below, we specify any "special" hardware or software requirements for a lesson or activity - in addition to those described above - and the level of Internet access required to do the activity.

1. Special hardware requirements: TV and VCR.
   
2. Special software requirements: A copy of Disney's movie Pocahontas
3. Classroom materials: students should have materials to take notes on inconsistencies that they find in the movie and record possible research questions.

Activity Description

• Briefly review the discussion from the previous lesson to help students refresh their memories on the criteria they developed for assessing the historical accuracy of resources.

• Ask students to take notes during the movie to record any potential inconsistencies they see and to begin to generate research questions.

• Show the movie. You may need to show the movie in two separate class sessions.

• At the end of the class session, have students share some of the questions that they developed. Have students create a list of possible research questions to address.