Goal:

• Your task is to create an interactive timeline with poster board including important dates
during World War I of their choice.
• Your goal is to _describe the dates of World War I of their choice, with an emphasis on major
battles fought in the war as well as to examine the social impact that the war had on the
soldiers.
• The problem or challenge is choosing a battle that includes enough historical information.
• The obstacles to overcome are sifting through fact and fiction of battles and finding enough
information to complete their timelines with pictures and information.

Role:
• You are a Researcher.
• You have been asked to find information about World War I.
• Your job is to find important dates during World War I and create a timeline using different
tools and add them to your pasteboard.

Audience:
• Your clients are other students in class.
• The target audience is the class and reviewing the dates with other students.
• You need to convince other students in the classroom that you have the correct dates with he
corresponding pictures.

Situation:
• The context you find your self in is finding factual information and corresponding pictures, you
want to find out the truth behind the date of the war.
• The challenge involves dealing with seeking the information that is factual and creating an
aspect for your timeline including creating propaganda.

Product Performance and Purpose:

• You will create a interactive timeline made with poster board in order to show specific dates of
the war as well as the impact they had on the soldiers.
• You need to develop an interactive timeline so that you learn more information about that
certain date and how it impacted history.

Standards and Criteria for Success:

• Your performance needs to show correct corresponding dates with the war event, create
effective timeline others can clearly ready and understand.
 • Your work will be judged by the rubric and the teacher.
• Your product must meet the following standards: pictures must be clear if used, include all
necessary information to understanding the date, be grammatically correct, add personality.
• A successful result will receive an A.
Narrative:
For this assessment the students will be acting as researchers and creating a interactive timeline that
will help students to understand the importance of World War I dates. With giving students the option
to create their own version of what a timeline should look like and giving the students the freedom to
choose what dates in the World War I time period they would like to use.

5 3 1 Total
Viewpoint/Role The viewpoint Student Student didn’t
the student understood the understand the
understood about viewpoint of the viewpoint or ____/5
the specific event event but didn’t event.
that occurred. fully grasp the
time period
stated.
Requirements Student Student used the Student did not
Met understood the correct date but use the correct
event, used the did not state the date or state the
correct date for correct meaning correct meaning ____/5
the event and of the date given, of the event with
included pictures used minimal no pictures.
that pictures.
corresponded
with the event.
Presentation Student made Student made Student did not
poster colorful colorful poster have any dates in
and placed the but did not have order and did not _____/5
correct dates for some correct make a colorful
the timeline in dates in order on poster.
order timeline.
Points ____/5 ____/5 ____/5 ____/5