TIPS: A Public Policy Analysis WebQuest

Samuel Gompers High School

Created by:

Mr. Bogolub

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Vietnamese Liberation

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/guerrilla/index.html

Introduction

Standing in the middle of a rice field during a hot day in Vietnam, you wipe the sweat off your brow. A helicopter flies high above your head, as you squint your eyes to make out the helicopter. You note the flag on the tail of the craft—American. You open your canteen and take a cool drink of water and think of all the foreign invaders in your country. Your father had told you all about the French occupation of your country for nearly 100 years. He often told you how it was the bad fortune of the Vietnamese to be taken over by foreign countries. Many people your father had known had been killed in, what the French called, a “colonial war.” Most of these people died without knowing why. Most people were like your father and yourself—farmers who worked off the land. Moments later you hear a whistling sound. You look up in the air and panic. All you see is a little black dot moving faster and faster. You drop your canteen and run away from the rice fields. You dare not look back, so as not to loose a second. As the whistling sound pierces your brain you run faster, and faster—until…

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Boom!!!

You look back just in time to see your home being blown to bits. Frustrated you throw your hat to the ground. All of a sudden you become very angry. Your father had built that house and you had been living there peacefully for quite some time.

“How much longer will foreign invaders destroy our homes!” You cry aloud

All of a sudden you hear a rustling in the bushes…

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“Hello. My name is Ho Chi Min. Your home was just destroyed by the imperial force of the United States. My people are attempting to free Vietnam from the United Sates. Will you join us in our struggle against the imperialist nations?”

You place your hat back on your head and look back at your destroyed home. You remember the stories your father told you about the French. You look at Ho Chi Min and say

“Yes. I will help.”

Ho Chi Min places you in charge of a group to remove the United States from Vietnam. The first task you must perform is to

find out a detailed history of Imperialism in Vietnam and then remove the United States from power.

Imperialism is the domination of one country over another.

Go to http://www.vwam.com/vets/briefhis.htm for a brief history of Vietnam.

The Task

Each student is responsible for the completion of the project (see the rubric below). Any student who does not help his/her group will receive an F for their grade. By the end of this project you and your group will have created a poster board with the following information:

1) Each component of the PPA (Public Policy Analyst) must be typed in Microsoft Word on a piece of paper and then placed on the poster board. For more information about the PPA go to

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/PPA/ghppai1.html

2) You must create a power point presentation on your topic.

3) An oral presentation of the information you found (see step 7 for greater detail).

The Process

The process is divided into two parts. First, you will gather the information on each section, and then you will put the information together to present to the rest of the class. This project will take no more than 12 day to complete. Listed next to the steps is the amount of days that you will have.

Step 1 (1-2 days):

Go to the following web page: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/PPA/ghppaip1.html and get the worksheet for this step.

What do we do here?

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For Step 1 through 5, you will begin the Public Policy Analyst method for solving a problem. Each point below matches the question to help you understand what is expected of you and your group. Failure to complete any part of the steps will affect your grade (See the rubric below). Each step has worksheet that you can get from clicking on the Step.

1. How did Ho Chi Min and the NLF try to remove the U.S.A from Vietnam?

Links to help you with the question:

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/guerrilla/index.html

http://www.essaybank.co.uk/free_coursework/583.html

2. What problems did Vietnam face from the 1800’s through the late 1900’s?

Links to help you with the question:

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index1.html

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index2.html

http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/timeline/index3.html

http://www.vwam.com/vets/briefhis.htm

3. What are some of the effects of this problem on Vietnam from the 1800’s-1900’s?

Based upon the problems that you researched on question 2, what effects can you predict will result from this problem?

4. What themes relate to this problem?

For this question, you must define the theme.

For a list of themes go to http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/global/themes.html

5. You and your group must come up with a phrase that describes the problem.

For this question, you will have to come up with a phrase that summarizes the problem. The best way to do this is to think of a newspaper heading.

Step 2 (1 Day):

Remember each point below matches the question to help you understand what is expected of you and your group.

1. To show evidence that a problem exists, each member of the group must find one web site or book that supports the problem. Therefore, you must have at least 5 different web sites to prove your point.

Links:

Here, you must find your own evidence. DO NOT USE THE WEBSITES GIVEN IN THE PREVIOUS STEPS!!!

Before you go to the search engines, you may go to the site below to help you use search engines:

http://www.askscott.com/tindex.html

You may use the following search engines:

https://www.google.com

Http://www.dogpile.com

http://www.yahoo.com

http://www.iranmania.com/

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/ppa/ghppatop.html

Step 3 (1 Day):

Remember each point below matches the question to help you understand what is expected of you and your group.

1. For this question, you are simply explaining how the problem began.

Links:

http://www.vwam.com/vets/briefhis.htm

http://www.worldrover.com/history/vietnam_history.html

http://tps.dpi.state.nc.us/connectasia/Vietnam/vietnam_history.htm

http://www.gbkgraphics.com/digger/history.htm

http://www.redcross.org.hk/news/history_war.htm

http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/vb/

Step 4 (1 Day):

Remember each point below matches the question to help you understand what is expected of you and your group. This step may be done outside of the computer room.

1. For this question, list at least two solutions to the problem.

2. What advantages do you see in the solutions you listed? How effective were these solutions?

3. What disadvantages do you see in the solutions you listed? How would you have done this differently?

4. Based on the research you have done, what do you think could have been done differently? For this question, you must be realistic. For instance, you could not say that Ho Chi Min should have used nuclear bombs, because he did not have access to them.

Step 5 (2 days):

Remember each point below matches the question to help you understand what is expected of you and your group.

For the following questions, you must now compare this situation to a similar situation. For example, you could choose Imperialism in (what will be known as) the United States, Latin America, South America, or Africa. You could choose the British in the United States, Spain in Latin America, France in Haiti, France in Africa, or any other situation in which one country used the policy of Imperialism in another country. You must do your own research for this question. What you are doing in this step is exactly the same as steps 1-4, except you will be doing a country other than India.

1. For the first question, you and your group will explain which country used the policy of Imperialism in another country and the date.

2. You and your group must find at least 3 different web sites showing evidence that a problem exists. This should be easy, because when you are doing your research for question 1, you will find evidence of a problem!

3. How did this problem begin? Why did one country use a policy of Imperialism against another?

4. How did the country you chose deal with the problem of Imperialism? What were the advantages of this solution? What were the disadvantages?

5. Finally, what have you learned from this process?

Step 6 (2 days):

For this step, you will create a power point presentation.

Remember, power point presentations should make heavy use of pictures. You are going to put all the information that you researched into your power point presentation. You must include at least 10 pictures and 10 themes.

Step 7 (2-3 days):

You and your group will present an oral presentation on the research you have done. The presentation must meet the following requirements:

Þ Each member of the group will define one theme and how it relates to the subject. Each member must have a different theme. Remember you can go to http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/global/themes.html for a list of the themes.

Þ Each member must speak for one minute on either India or the other country that the group selected. You should split your group in half so that each topic can be discussed adequately.

Þ Each worksheet and map must be presented on a poster board.

Þ You should dress appropriately. Remember to dress for success!

Resources

The following are a list of links to help you with your research

Evaluation

A breakdown of the grades:

1. Oral Report (Step 7) =35%

2. PPA (Steps 1-5)= 35%

3. Power Point Presentation(Step 6)=30%

Rubric for Oral Report:

Very little work.

Shows little knowledge of subject. Inappropriate clothing (baseball hat, doo rag, etc.)

Some work shown. Some knowledge of subject.

Is able to explain subject but cannot analyze material. You cannot get above a 3 if one of your teammates does not speak. THIS INCLUDES NOT SHOWING UP!

Is able to explain and can analyze the subject in detail.

Is able to fully explain and can analyze the subject in great detail.

Rubric for PPA (Steps 1-5)

1	2	3	4	5
Has only completed one step to the satisfaction of Mr. Bogolub.	Has only completed two steps to the satisfaction of Mr. Bogolub.	Has only completed three steps to the satisfaction of Mr. Bogolub.	Has only completed three steps to the satisfaction of Mr. Bogolub.	Has only completed three steps to the satisfaction of Mr. Bogolub.

Rubric for Power Point Presentation

1	2	3	4	5
Has only 2 pictures and text takes up most of space. Only 2 themes.	Has only 4 pictures and text takes up the rest of the space. Only Uses 4 themes	Has 6 pictures, 6 themes, and text.	Has 8 pictures, 8 themes, and some text explaining the pictures	Has all 10 pictures and all 10 themes.

Note: for each member of the group who dresses well the group will receive 5 points for this project.

This project counts as 5 quiz grades, 5 homework grades, 2 test grades, and counts as a project.

Conclusion

After completing this WEBQUEST, the student will have—

1. An understanding of the cause of Imperialism by the United States.

2. An understanding of the effects of Imperialism by the United States on Vietnam.

3. An understanding of Ho Chi Min was and how he achieved his goals.

4. An understanding of how the situation in India was similar to another part of the world.

5. An understanding of a WEBQUEST.

6. An understanding of how to use a search engine.

7. An understanding of how to give an oral report.

8. An understanding of how to synthesize information on to a poster board.

9. An understanding of the PPA (Public Policy Analyst) process.

The students will have met the following New York State English Standards:

E1c Reads and comprehends information materials.

E2a Produce a report of information.

E3b Participate in group meetings.

E6a Critique public documents with an eye to strategies common in public discourse.

E6b Produce public documents.

E7a Critique functional documents with an eye to strategies common to effective functional documents.

E7b Produce functional documents appropriate to audience and purpose.

The students will have met the following New York State Global History Standards:

Standard 1: The study of world history requires an understanding of world cultures and civilizations, including an analysis of important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. This study also examines the human condition and the connections and interactions of people across time and space and the ways different people view the same event or issue from a variety of perspectives.

Standard 2: Establishing time frames, exploring different periodizations, examining themes across time and within cultures, and focusing on important turning points in world history help organize the study of world cultures and civilizations.

Standard 4: The skills of historical analysis include the ability to investigate differing and competing interpretations of the theories of history, hypothesize about why interpretations change over time, explain the importance of historical evidence, and understand the concepts of change and continuity over time.

Samuel Gompers High School

G4$

Vietnamese Liberation

The following are a list of links to help you with your research

Search engines:

Sites related to PPA (Public Policy Analyst)

Sites related to Vietnam

Sites relating to Global History Themes

Sites explaining how to do a web search:

Rubric for Oral Report:

Rubric for PPA (Steps 1-5)

Rubric for Power Point Presentation

After completing this WEBQUEST, the student will have—