Introduction
This is Queen Victoria:
Today you will learn about her.
Task
You will be visiting two websites and answering some important questions, answer half or more of them depending on your understanding of who Queen Victoria was.
Process
Remember, you don't need to answer all the questions, but they are here for you to check your own understanding (which is important), and you'll also get a higher score.
Visit this first website and answer these questions:
Where was Queen Victoria born?
What were her skills (both natural and learned) and how was she educated?
How old was she when she became queen?
From whom did she learn how to be a proper ruler?
How many children did she have?
How did it affect her when her husband, Prince Albert, died?
In general, how did she handle foreign affairs? What were the outcomes?
What is ironic about Queen Victoria?
Visit this second website and answer these questions:
What brought her out of her shell again?
How did she manage to avoid conflict with other countries?
What did the Reform Act of 1832 do?
When did she become Empress of India?
Lastly, write a paragraph about what you know of Queen Victoria. Include 3 facts you found interesting.
Evaluation
Rubric:
50 - Paragraph is clear and recognizes multiple main points and details about Queen Victoria, her family, and her reign.
40 - Paragraph presents a fairly detailed understanding of Queen Victoria, her family and reign.
30 - Paragraph presents basic knowledge/facts about Queen Victoria and her reign.
20 - Paragraph presents somewhat of an understanding of Queen Victoria and her reign.
10 - Paragraph shows little to no understanding of Queen Victoria and her reign.
Your final score will be the score you got on the paragraph multiplied by the number of questions you answered correctly.
400 to 600: Excellent!
300 to 399: Pretty great!
200 to 299: Thumbs up!
100 to 199: Not so great!
0 to 99: Shame.
Conclusion
Now you should have a better picture of Queen Victoria than you had when you started, this was just an experience for you to understand someone, wouldnt you want someone in the future learning about you!? If your picture of the Queen is vague then review the sites, understand someone isn't that hard you just have to change your perspecive of this learning process. Enjoy and i hope you learned something new.
Credits
Created to help young minds comprehend a topic
created by Bruce Roberts & Alberto Mariscal