Apply Your Knowledge

This is a PowerPoint designed to introduce and explain the purpose of Project Based Learning. It addresses parent concerns such as State Testing, lack of authentic learning, and undering the content. It also explains the purpose of the new approach to education and research which supports the claims. This is all accomplished through cartoons, pictures, brief quotes, and video clips.

This chart is a useful tool for students to compare the standard characteristics of early river-valley civilizations. Students will analyze the similarities of civilizations which developed along similar paths while being independent of each other.