Whetzel,+Cynthia+Lea-Cool+Tools+Review

My Cool Tools session focused on digital historical inquiry using the SCIM-C method. We also looked at Gapminder, which shows world data trends visually, and Chronozoom, which is a timeline tool for visualizing history of the cosmos. Most of our time was spent on the digitial historical inquiry which is what I found most interesting and useful for my classroom toolkit.

My lesson that I have in mind is to do a digital historical inquiry into Executive Order 9066 which led to the internment of Japanese Americans during WW II. Students would be given the link [] to read what the steps and questions are in the inquiry process. They would then go to the wikispaces site that I created for this activity http://1942executiveorder9066.wikispaces.com for their guiding question, digital document, and follow up activity. On this site there will be the SCIM-C questions which they are to answer while analyzing the document.