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Unit 3: A History of Highline CommunityGrades K-2 PDF Version Lessons: Where is Highline? Mike Kelly~First Pioneer, Pictures of Old Times, The Big Trip Around Your School Community, When Did Your Family Come to Highline? Growth of Highline, Take the Big Trip to Burien, Boeing and Sea-Tac International Mean a lot to Highline, Highline Area Today |
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| Introduction: Nothing is more interesting than studying the history of the places you know. This unit is designed to do just that. The children will learn how their own community of the Highline School District grew from one pioneer, Mike Kelly, to the large suburban metropolis that it is today. The boys and girls will learn how technology and two large businesses drew people to the area. To study this area, the students will learn computer skills, new reading vocabulary, and map skills. Have fun on trips around your school and Burien! | |||||||||||
Desired Academic ResultsEssential Academic Learning Requirements in Social Studies HistoryEALR #1 The student examines and understands major ideas, eras,
themes, developments, turning points, chronology, and cause-effect
relationships in Washington State History. EALR #2 The student understands the origin and impact of ideas
and technological developments on history. EconomicsEALR #1 Students understand the impact of scarcity on their personal
lives and on the household, businesses, governments and societies
in which they are participants. EALR #2 Students understand the essential characteristics of modern
economics. GeographyEALR #1 The student uses
maps, charts, and other geographic tools to understand the spatial
arrangement of people, place, resources and environments on Earth’s
surface. EALR #2 The student understands
the complex physical and human characteristics of places and regions. EALR # 3 The student
observes and analyzes the interaction between people, environment,
and culture. Overarching Understandings • People settle
in an area for various reasons. What the Students Will Understand • Locations of
towns that make up the Highline community Overarching Questions • Who were the
first settlers of the Highline area? Unit Questions • Where is Highline
on a USA/Washington/Seattle map? |
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Assessment: The Evidence That Will Demonstrate Student UnderstandingPerformance Tasks and Projects • Create
a mural of early life in Highline Observations • Research on the
Internet and in books |
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Learning Experiences and InstructionWhat the Students Will Need to Know • Map skills What the Students Will Need to Be Able to Do • Read a timeline Field Sites
• Tour of Burien
area • Museum of Flight • SeaTac International
Airport |
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LessonsLesson 1: Where is Highline?The children need to know where they live. Find a world map, USA map, Seattle map, and a map of the Highline School District. Work with the children to find the Highline area. Talk about the different parts of the Highline area: White Center, Shoreline, Seahurst, Normandy Park, Burien, Des Moines, Valley View. Where is your school? Where is Sunnydale Elementary? Where is Burien? Look for the surrounding communities. (Kent, Federal Way, Tukwila, and Seattle) Where is Puget Sound? Check for other bodies of water…Angle Lake, Lake Burien. Highways are important to the area too. What about I-5 and Highway 509? Military Road and Des Moines Way? Put these new words on a Word Wall that will grow over the unit.Lesson 2: Mike Kelly - First Highline PioneerUsing the book The
Many Roads to Highline, Chapter 1.
This chapter tells the very start of the Highline area. Another
interesting part of the book is the Foreward
From where did he come? What did he find? (Types of trees, animals,
fish in the rivers.) What kind of home did he build for his family?
Make a class mural showing life for the first pioneers in the area. Lesson 3: Pictures of Old TimesObtain multiple copies of The Many Roads to Highline from the school and public library. There are many pictures of the area and its early pioneers, schools, and towns. Pictures are also available from the Highline Historical Society (you’ll have to make copies) as well as the archives of the Highline Times. The Burien Library also has pictures in their Northwest Room that can be copied for student examination. Ask the children to look for signs that these pictures are from long ago, allow them to ask questions about unfamiliar items they see in the pictures, and to relate what they see with what it looks like today. Ask them to imagine what was here before their school. Then show the video, SeaTac Chronicle: Voices from a City. Have students draw what they think their community is like now. Display their work on a bulletin board. Later, date the work and send it to the Highline Historical Society for their museum archives. Lesson 4: The Big Trip Around Your School CommunityHave students make a tour of their community. Have the students make sketch books with lined paper and copy paper for drawing. Make the covers out of cardboard and have the older children help the “youngers” bind the books. Obtain permission slips from parents for community field trips. Take the students on a walking tour of their school community. What do they see? Have them record using words and pictures man made and natural objects that catch their attention on the walk. Be sure you as a teacher point out a few pre-selected points of interest. Decide which ones should be photographed to show how the community looks and works today. Have a parent volunteer take a few photos. These could be used on a timeline. If possible, find pictures of the business (or the site where the business was) to show the children before they go on a driving field trip. Arrange with several businesses for the field trip since you will probably arrive by car and need to use their parking facilities. Try to arrange for a brief tour of one or two of the businesses. Again, let the students record in their books what they see. Have the pupils help you determine what photos to take and be sure to get some that correspond with any of the older photos you found. When you return to the classroom, add to the word wall. Discuss why these businesses are in your community and what kind of jobs they provide. Compare and contrast old photos with new photos and fresh memories. Lesson 5: When Did Your Family Come to Highline?Send a note home with your students. Ask them to interview their parents. Find out when they came to Highline? Has their family been in the area a long time? Why did they come to the area? What do they like about the area? Have the students read the answers or have the teacher read the answers. Chart the answers in the front of the room. When Came? Reasons? What like? Lesson 6: Growth of HighlineMake a
chart or timeline of the following technology advances in the Burien
area. - 1854 Construction of
country road (Military Road) from Fort Steilacoom to Seattle Lesson 7: Take the Big Trip to BurienTake a field trip to Burien area to see Sunnydale Elementary (original part of school, the first school bell, the WW I Memorial and American Elms), downtown Burien, old sites of first homes in the area, Three Tree Point, and the Burien Library. (This is a one-day trip.) Take photos all along the way. Have the students make a photo essay book for the class and school about the history of Highline. Lesson 8: Boeing and Sea-Tac International Mean a lot to HighlineRead Chapter 3 of Highline School District Chronicle. Talk with the children about the growth of Highline and the decline of the ‘70’s. What caused the decline? What caused the growth? Boeing Company plays a large role in the growth and decline of the Highline area as does the Sea-Tac Airport. Take a field trip to the Museum of Flight or Sea-Tac International Airport. Why do Boeing and Sea-Tac impact life in Highline? (People who work at both businesses like to live nearby.) Survey several classes in the school and find out how many parents work at one of these businesses. Do these businesses make other businesses come to the area? Why? Check Boeing website for kids. Let the students find the site and print some of the activities that they would like to do. Talk about the Boeing business. What do they make? How many people work there? What does Sea-Tac International do? How many people work there? Lesson 9: Highline Area TodayHave the Principal come into the class and talk about Highline School District today. Is it growing? Is your school growing? What are important issues in the area today? (Traffic, airport expansion, airport noise, modernizing of downtown Burien, finding a place for the Burien Historical Societies Museum…it does not have a place at the present time, building new schools) |
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ResourcesBooks Eyler, Melba
and Evelyn A. Yeager. The Many Roads to Highline. Highline
Publishing Co., 1972. Jensen, Carl. Highline
School District Chronicle. 1981 Children’s Books: (Found on Amazon.com) Littlefield, Holly. Children
of the Trail West. Lowery, Linda. Aunt
Clara Brown: Official Pioneer (On My Own Biographies) Tierney, Tom. American
Pioneer Family Paper Dolls. Websites Boeing Company Burien Early History Burien, Washington, USA City of Des Moines City of SeaTac |
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Art ProjectART AND THE HIGHLINE COMMUNITY Sculpture in Public Places
George Tsutakawa's water sculpture found in courtyard of Burien's Library. Background:
Here is a chance to combine art and architecture right in downtown
Burien. This is a two part lesson: the first is a field trip to
the Burien Library and the second is the follow up art creation
in the class room. The main focus is sculpture and how it can enhance
a public space.
Burien Library, bas relief. Lesson Ideas • Have the children
observe the fountain
and describe it. Be sure they use their ears as well as their eyes.
Ask them what it does for the library, why is it nice to have a
fountain here? How about the plants and courtyard? How does that
add the attractiveness of the library? Does it make them feel welcome?
Should a public library pay for art or should it only buy books
and computers? Have students sketch the fountain in their field
trip notebooks. Materials Websites http://www.washington.edu/research/showcase/1947a.html http://www.jetcitymaven.com/9908aug/histgates.html http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/pubart/UCLAArt/obos.html http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/la/pubart/UCLAArt/ |
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