DEVELOPED AS PART OF A CURRICULUM-BASED ENRICHMENT UNIT FOR THE FOURTH GRADE AT ROCKBURN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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ASSIGNMENT

You and your partner need to search the web sites below for information about famous events and people of Maryland during the twentieth century. You need to select anywhere from 8 to 15 of the events/people and gather important information. With your partner, write a short one or two sentence introduction about the person or event and anywhere from 4 - 8 bullets or details about the event or person. Examples will be shared in class. Then, you and your partner will create a PowerPoint presentation summarizing your research. Each of the people or events will become a slide in the presentation. Each slide will need to have a picture and include your introduction/details you wrote. The introduction will be the heading for each slide and the details will be the bullets for each slide. You will learn how to use PowerPoint in class. We will meet approximately 16 times during the next few months. You should break down your time roughly as follows:

March 12 - 14...............Look at as many of the sites you can and try to select or list the ones you want to write about.

March 19 - 28 ..............Write your introduction sentences and 4 - 8 details for each. You can either write them down on paper or create a Word file.

April 2 - May 9 ........... Develop your PowerPoint Presentation.

May 14 - May 23 .........Share your PowerPoint Presentations.

And Now, The Web Sites......


Spiro T. Agnew vice president, Baltimore

John Barth writer, Cambridge

Eubie Blake musician, Baltimore

Francis X. Bushman actor, Baltimore

James M. Cain writer, Annapolis

Philip Glass composer, Baltimore

Matthew Henson explorer, Charles City

Billie Holiday jazz-blues singer, Baltimore Billy Holiday Photo

Thurgood Marshall jurist, Baltimore

H. L. Mencken writer, Baltimore

Babe Ruth baseball player, Baltimore

Upton Sinclair author, Baltimore

Frank Zappa singer, Baltimore

William and Henry Walters father and son art collectors

Glenn L. Martin Started aircraft company in Baltimore

James Rouse Developed and planned the community of Columbia

Barbara Mikulski First Maryland woman U.S. Senator

Kurt Schmoke Baltimore's First African American Mayor

Cal Ripkin Jr. Major league baseball player for Baltimore Orioles

Dr. Ben Carson Famous Baltimore Doctor

Ogden Nash Famous poet

Sugar Ray Leonard Boxer

Tom Clancy Author

 

Other Web Sites with lists of famous Marylanders - be careful - not all are from the twentieth century!

SAILOR'S Famous Marylanders

Famous Marylanders

Subject Index

Maryland Authors & Illustrators

Time Line of the Twentieth Century Maryland
African Americans

Other Web sites which include events and people of Maryland during the Twentieth Century

HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY 1900 - 1999 OF MARYLAND

Baltimore Streetcar Museum, Inc.


Transportation System Development in the Baltimore Region and Maryland
This site is broken down into sections.  No pictures, but has a lot of dates and history.  Highway Transportation mentions Bay Bridge and Baltimore Beltway.  Air Transportation mentions Friendship International Airport and its change to BWI.  Public Transportation mentions trolley cars/electric streetcars.

Wright Brothers Timeline/Maryland's Aviation History Mural at BWI
Any significant event that dealt with flight that happened in Maryland is included on the list.

Roads to the Future
Scroll down to Washington D.C. Area for Capital Beltway.
Scroll down to Baltimore Maryland Area for Fort McHenry Tunnel and  Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Scroll down to Maryland General for Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
each of these links will lead to a photo and a brief article that includes other related links.

The Baltimore Harbor Tunnel
Photo, brief history, facts.

Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant
Photo, brief history, facts.
Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant
Brief history and purpose.

Chesapeake Bay Bridge
Fast facts

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
History of center.

Maryland Public Television
Site does not seem to include history, but it may provide other info the kids could use.

History of the Columbia Association
Click on the Archives link at the top, then scroll down to find the History of Columbia and a brief biography of James Rouse (includes the cover of TIME magazine on which he was featured).