Planning a Hypermedia Project

A very simple planning process: the G.A.P. process:

Gathering information

(research into topic)

Arranging

(storyboarding)

Presenting

(building the presentation)

Assignment: We will divide into groups of 3 or 4. Each group will create a storyboard ("Arranging" above) for a hypermedia project on this topic:

The reversal of the Chicago River

After the intro, you will have 75 minutes to prepared, and scan your storyboard and get ready to present it to the class.

STATE GOAL 17: Understand world geography and the effects of geography on society, with an emphasis on the United States .

Why This Goal Is Important: The need for geographic literacy has never been greater or more obvious than in today's tightly interrelated world. Students must understand the world's physical features, how they blend with social systems and how they affect economies, politics and human interaction. Isolated geographic facts are not enough. To grasp geography and its effect on individuals and societies, students must know the broad concepts of spatial patterns, mapping, population and physical systems (land, air, water). The combination of geographic facts and broad concepts provides a deeper understanding of geography and its effects on individuals and societies.

Goal 17D: Understand the historical significance of geography.

Early Elementary	Late Elementary	Middle/Junior High School	Early High School	Late High School
17.D.1 Identify changes in geographic characteristics of a local region (e.g., town, community).	17.D.2a Describe how physical characteristics of places influence people’s perceptions and their roles in the world over time.	17.D.3a Explain how and why spatial patterns of settlement change over time.	17.D.4 Explain how processes of spatial change have affected human history (e.g., resource development and use, natural disasters).	17.D.5 Analyze the historical development of a current issue involving the interaction of people and geographic factors (e.g., mass transportation, changes in agricultural subsidies, flood control).
	17.D.2b Identify different settlement patterns in Illinois and the United States and relate them to physical features and resources.	17.D.3b Explain how interactions of geographic factors have shaped present conditions.

Performance Descriptors

Stage C (Grades 2, 3, 4)

Illustrate how technological developments have been used to alter the physical environment of the local community (e.g., of or about automobiles, electricity, and computers by using pictures and stories).

Stage D (Grades 3, 4, 5)

Analyze how the physical features of Illinois have affected the settlement patterns of the state (e.g., rivers, valleys, prairie).

Some basic facts:

drinking water came from lake
river flowed into the lake
sewage flowed into the river
people were getting sick
Chicago tried to increase distance from shore that drinking water was taken (two-mile crib, lake tunnel, water tower)
people still getting sick
in 1887 decision made to try to reverse the river
Metropolitan Sanitary District created in 1889 by state law
28 mile canal (Sanitary and Ship Canal) dug with locks at lake and Lockport
reversal occurred in 1900
waste now goes south into canal, illinois river, misssippi river

Some resources

http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/riverflow.html

http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/civil/chicago_river.shtml

http://www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/civil/chicago_river_2.shtml

http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ihy010452.html

Below from: Source secret
The completion of the entire project eventually resulted in the construction of a river 31 miles long and 26 feet deep. The entire project cost over $70 million.
Thirteen bridges were built over the main canal. All are moveable bridges, so that canal boats can pass through.
Seven sluice gates, each 30 feet wide, and a movable dam 160 feet long were built at Lockport. By opening these gates or lowering the dam, the amount of water flowing in the main channel can be regulated at all times.
Engineering techniques and earthmoving machines develop during construction of the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal were used to build the Panama Canal.
In 1885, a huge storm dumped more than six inches of rain on the city within a two-day period. The heavy rainfall flushed the streets, catch basins, and sewers into the river and polluted the lake far beyond the intake cribs that supplied the citys drinking water. Roughly 12 percent of the citys population became sick and died from cholera, typhoid, and dysentery in the aftermath of this storm.

http://www.asce.org/history/tl_watersupply.html

(SOURCE is secret)