Victorian
Life and Amusement WebQuest
A WebQuest for 12th Grade
(English IV-ENGL 2323)
Designed by
Karin Dalton
kdalton@southsanisd.net
Introduction | Task
| Process
| Evaluation
| Conclusion | Credits | Teacher Page
Introduction
Through the
power of H.G. Wells’ Time Machine, you and your team have been
whisked back to England
The Task
Having
returned from your time travel visit to Victorian England, you have two
tasks. Your first task is to write a 3-page
research paper on the aspect of Victorian life that
you explored. This should be well
written and well documented. Various
sites will be suggested to you below, but you must also explore and use
off-line resources (a minimum of 5) and document them as well. You will follow the format approved for this
class. Your second task is to prepare a presentation for the Disney representatives on the Victorian
theme park.
You should give your park a name, a flag, a slogan, and design at least
four distinct thematic areas. One of the
sub-tasks of your group will be to determine the theme focus of each area. Each area must have its own name, flag,
attractions, rides, food court, and menu.
You might also want to have a jingle or theme song for each area.
In addition,
the park will have a visitor’s center/museum that will be a “time
capsule” of Victorian England. The
museum should be arranged logically to allow visitors to really learn about
Victorian life. Use the research paper
to help create the displays you will offer to the public. Be sure to include a gift shop with
appropriately tacky souvenirs. Each
member of the class will have an active role in the presentation. The presentation should include a map of the
park, a map of each area, a map of the visitor’s center/museum.
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The Process
1. First, each member of the class should choose an area of
study. You will become the resident
expert on this aspect of Victorian life.
2. All students should check this site: The Victorian Web and The Victorian
Period (follow links to end)
Architecture
Victorian Architecture: An Overview
Victorian Architecture:
Styles
High Victorian
Gothic
Victorian
Art and Architecture
Art
Art Web
Sites: 19th and 20th Century
Authors
Robert Browning
Lewis Carroll
George Eliot
Rudyard Kipling
Christina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Robert Louis Stevenson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Oscar Wilde
Child
Labor
Child Labor
British History
1750- Extensive
Children
as Industrial Workers
Child Labor
Child
Labor and the Industrial Revolution
Christmas
and other holidays
A Victorian Christmas
Christmas in Victorian
Englandl
The
Spirit of Christmas Past
Clothing
What Victorians Wore
The Customer's Manifesto
Economy/Money
Adam Smith
The Bank of England
Bankruptcy in
Victorian England
Corn Laws
Family
life and the home
Care and Feeding of
Infants
Childhood
Playthings
The
Victorian Family
Food
Victorian Diet
The Tea Tradition
Food
of Industrial England
Victorian
Hunger and Malnutrition in Alice in Wonderland
Food, Drink,
and Public Health in the Alice Books
Industrial Revolution
The
Industrial Revolution Class Lecture
Inventions
Inventors and
Inventions
Victorian
technology
Victorian Medicine
19th Century
Inventions
Law
and Justice
History of the Metropolitan
Police Service
Military/Weapons
Crimean War
The Role of the Victorian
Army
An Overview
Music
and dance
Michael Balfe
Sir Arthur
Sullivan
Romantic
19th Century Music
Romantic Era Music Links
Regency Dances
Queen
The Life and Times of Queen
Victoria
Excerpts from Victoria's
Diaries
Recreation
and games
Childhood
Playthings
Boy's Clothes for
Outing at the Park
19th Century
Amusements
Transportation
Victorian
Railways, Punch, and "Hudson's Statue"
The Growth
of Victorian Railways
Women
in the 19th Century
Timeline of
Legislation
Madame
Bodichon
Hastings and
Women's Suffrage
Marriage
Women
and Marriage
3. When you have completed your web-research on your area of study,
find at least 5 (five) off-line resources for additional information.
4. Write a well-documented research paper following the
accepted class format (see the Bedford Handbook), especially noting the rules
for MLA documentation. This portion of
your assignment is due 2 weeks from today.
5. To begin preparing for your presentation to the Disney
representatives, check out the following sites about amusement parks.
Cedar Point on Lake
Erie
Amusement
Park Industry History
Amusement
Park News
Family
Learning in Museums
Great
Moments with the Amusement Park Industry
Coney
Island
Theme Park Design
Then, as a class decide on the
park’s name, slogan, flag and organization. What are the four thematic areas you will
divide your park into? How will you
organize your museum?
6. Divide yourselves into four teams, each with the responsibility
for one section of the park.
7. Assign the following roles within each team (some may need
to take on more than one role.)
v
Project
Superintendent: The superintendent
will oversee the project, and make sure that all of the individual parts come
together to complete the project. The
superintendent will also take notes on what everyone is doing and make sure
that jobs and topics for the museum are not duplicated. This person will be responsible for keeping
the group on task and on time. The
superintendent will be the "right hand person" helping all of the
other group members. This person is also
responsible for working with the other Project Superintendents and making sure
that all of the pieces of the larger project fit together and are done in a
timely manor.
v
Coordinator
of Food Service: This person takes
the ideas of the group and makes the final decisions about what food to serve
and this person will create the actual menu.
Disney wants to see the menu exactly as the park visitors will see it. Be creative and stick to the theme. (You may certainly work with the other
Coordinators of Food Service to be sure that there is a good variety of
offering throughout the park.)
v
Groundskeeper:
This person will ensure that the
flag and the slogan that the group has come up with are created, and are
visible and that a physical representation of the theme is evident either in
the lay out of the park or the plantings.
(You may certainly work with the other Groundskeepers to be sure that
there is a good variety and coordination throughout the park.)
v
Attractions
Coordinator: This person will turn
the ideas of the group into the reality of the park. Remember that you need rides, and shows and
games for a variety of age groups. Remember
that music can be an important part of creating the atmosphere for your
area. (You may certainly work with the
other Attractions Coordinators to be sure that there are a good variety of
activities throughout the park.)
v Museum Co-Curator: This person will turn of ideas of the group and specific information from their research papers into the area of the museum this team is responsible for. This person will coordinate with other museum co-curators to design the layout of the museum and the contents of displays and the gift shop.
8.
On the day of
the presentation, the Project Superintendents should present the overview of
the park, and then the teams should present their individual areas.
Evaluation
Your group will be graded on the process of creating
the amusement park and on the historical accuracy of your areas and museum
section, as well as the attractiveness of the concept. Individually you will be graded on the
content, grammar, mechanics, and documentation of your research papers.
Check out your presentation rubric
Once you have completed this project you will have
a very good grasp of the life of the Victorians. You will have some understanding of how they
lived their daily lives and how politics and world events influenced them. You will also have learned to translate these
trends into a exciting representation of Victorian England. Look around
Credits & References
Cpj2.gif.
[Online Image] Available: <A HREF="http://www.victorians.net/clipart.shtml">Victorian
Clipart</a>, March 21, 2002 .
Jpangels.gif [Online Image] Available:<A HREF="http://www.victorians.net/clipart.shtml">Victorian
Clipart</a>, March 21, 2002 .
Some
ideas borrowed from a Web quest by Mark Woon, http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/madams/the_task.htm, March 21, 2002 .
