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Fort Bend ISD Timeline Activities

• Use the Fort Bend ISD timeline to compare local events to personal, national, and international milestones.
  Suggestions
  Reflect on the dates of the timeline that include your lifespan. Add personal events that have occurred in your life.
  What other major events or people would you add to this timeline?
  Categorize each item on the timeline as economic, political, or social. Some items may have more than one label.
  Resources
  FBISD timeline
  Past, Present, and Future Timeline Lesson
• Have students create an original timeline displaying the order that each school opened.
  Resource
  FBISD timeline

Legacy of Leaders

• Research the name of your school.
  Suggestions
  Is it named after a person or place? Why? If it is named for a person, how did he/she impact FBISD? If it is named for a place, what is the significance of the place?
  Resource
  Fort Bend ISD School Namesakes
  Local, State, and National Legacies Lesson 
• Fort Bend Leader Card Shuffle
  Suggestions – Print the pdf version of the FBISD bio list. Cut the list into cards separating pictures from biographies. Students can match the pictures to the person and organize them into chronological order based on the date “their” school opened.
  Resource
  Fort Bend ISD School Namesakes  
• Interview someone who has a “history” with Fort Bend ISD. Write a profile of this person, elaborating on his/her perspectives about FBISD.
  Suggestions
  Someone who attended FBISD schools
  Someone who works for FBISD now or in the past
  Someone who attended area schools before FBISD existed
  Resources 
  Smithsonian Oral History Guide -
  National Endowment for the Humanities - Interview Activities

Fort Bend ISD Fast Facts

• Create a graphical representation of one or more characteristics of FBISD over time.
  Suggestions
  Change in student population (total enrollment, ethnicity)
  Change in number of schools (elementary, middle schools, and/or high schools)
  Change in land use of your school site
  Change in budget amounts over time
  Change in number of students bused over time
  Resources
  FBISD enrollment spreadsheet
  FBISD list of schools
  FBISD map of school locations
  Where We’ve Built Lesson
  National Endowment for the Humanities – Mapping Change in Your Neighborhood
• Create a word search or crossword puzzle featuring the mascots of the FBISD schools.
  Resources
  FBISD list of mascots

School Histories

• Create an oral, visual, or written history product about your school. Write a letter to your principal proposing that your project be included on your school’s website.
  Suggestions
  Set up a videoconference with other schools to present your projects to each site.
  Present projects at special campus-wide events such as Open House.
  A written project might be constructed in the form of a scrapbook.
• Collect artifacts related to your school and its history. Create a trophy case exhibit featuring your collection of school memorabilia.
  Resources
  National Archives – Analysis Worksheets
  Photo - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/photo_analysis_worksheet.pdf
  Artifact - http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/artifact_analysis_worksheet.pdf
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Sugar Land 50th Anniversary Parent/Child/Teacher Activities & Lesson Plans

In partnership with the City and its 50th Anniversary celebration, we are delighted to share this series of Parent/Child and Teacher activities and TEKS lesson plans created by aspiring future teacher students at the University of Houston System at SugarLand. Lessons and activities, ranging from reading to fun field trips, are designed to highlight the City’s rich history, amenities, cultural heritage, local trees, foods and much more. Designed for sharing with children from Kindergarten through 4th grade, all ages and grades will find something fun to do or learn about our city’s rich history and diversity.

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