BIG IDEA:
Perspective helps to define the attributes of historical comprehension.
People have expressed experiences and ideas through the arts throughout time and across cultures.
Numbers, measures, expressions, equations, and inequalities can represent mathematical situations and structures in many equivalent forms.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
What role does analysis have in historical construction?
What role does symbolism play in culture and society?
How can we use proportionality as represented through models to solve real world problems?
OVERVIEW:
A team of treasure hunters has just discovered a shipwreck. An initial dive yielded a number of coins. These coins need to be analyzed to determine their origin and the potential purpose they served aboard the ship. Based upon your findings, the team will need to decide whether further investigation is warranted. The investors need to decide whether the shipwreck has value and is worth funding. Your research and decisions are of critical importance to all concerned. Please utilize the resources below to help you with this research and to see coins that have been discovered from other shipwrecks.
GOAL:
You have just been hired by a group of treasure hunters to help them solve the mystery of a shipwreck that they have just discovered off the coast of Florida. The shipwreck contains a number of coins that may be critical in determining the origin of the ship, the name of the ship, and the value of the shipwreck discovered. This job will require you to use your analytical skills and knowledge of symbols and societies to help you discover the origin of the coins.
ROLE:
You are a numismatist hired by a group of treasure hunters to help them determine the origin of the shipwreck they have discovered. You will need to analyze the numerous coins found at the shipwreck site.
AUDIENCE:
Your audience includes the team of treasure hunters and the investors who have funded this expedition. The investors need to be sure that the shipwreck has value before they agree to fund the excavation.
SITUATION:
A team of treasure hunters has just discovered an old shipwreck off of the coast of Florida. An initial dive yielded a number of coins. These coins need to be analyzed to determine their origin and the potential purpose that they served aboard the ship. Based upon your findings, the team will need to decide whether further investigation is warranted. The investors need to decide whether the shipwreck has value and is worth funding. Your research and decisions are of critical importance to all concerned. Please utilize the resources below to help you with this research and see coins that have been discovered from other shipwrecks.
Through the links below you will learn how these coins were critical to discovering the shipwreck's identity:
Atocha
SS Central America
SS New York Steamer
PRODUCTS:
Brochure
Your task is to create a brochure for investors interested in buying coins, jewels, and artifacts from the shipwreck site. You will need to provide information about these items convincing potential investors that investing in these items is a valuable investment. Be sure to include information about what gives the coins and jewels their value and what might cause that value to go up or down. Provide images of different available coins, jewels and artifacts along with information about unique or interesting facts that give them value. You should also identify the shipwreck in which these coins came from and provide information related to the ship and the shipwreck. You might consider including a table that shows the different available items for sale and their prices.
Radio Broadcast (Podcast)
Create a short radio broadcast that teaches investors about the value of coins and how the coins were found. Your broadcast should discuss how scarcity contributes to a coin's value as well as age and condition. Let them know where the coins were found and how they were found. Your main goal is to convince investors that buying old coins is a good value so be enthusiastic in your broadcast!
Research Paper/Report
Your task is to create a 1-2 page research report on the origin of coins, jewels, and/or artifacts and the route that the ship that wrecked took. The route is important as you consider why the coins and artifacts were in the ship's hold. Some questions that might be worth answering related to the artifacts might include: Where did the coins originate and what value did they possess? What are some of the most common symbols seen on coins and what is their significance? What materials have coins been made from through the ages? What artifacts were found and why do you believe they were being transported?
You should also provide information for the shipwreck. What country owned the ship and what was the ship's main purpose? Did the ship use specific shipping routes and where did these routes take the ship? Where and why did the ship sink? Consider adding a timeline or other images to enhance your report and to support your findings.
Perspective helps to define the attributes of historical comprehension.
People have expressed experiences and ideas through the arts throughout time and across cultures.
Numbers, measures, expressions, equations, and inequalities can represent mathematical situations and structures in many equivalent forms.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
What role does analysis have in historical construction?
What role does symbolism play in culture and society?
How can we use proportionality as represented through models to solve real world problems?
OVERVIEW:
A team of treasure hunters has just discovered a shipwreck. An initial dive yielded a number of coins. These coins need to be analyzed to determine their origin and the potential purpose they served aboard the ship. Based upon your findings, the team will need to decide whether further investigation is warranted. The investors need to decide whether the shipwreck has value and is worth funding. Your research and decisions are of critical importance to all concerned. Please utilize the resources below to help you with this research and to see coins that have been discovered from other shipwrecks.
GOAL:
You have just been hired by a group of treasure hunters to help them solve the mystery of a shipwreck that they have just discovered off the coast of Florida. The shipwreck contains a number of coins that may be critical in determining the origin of the ship, the name of the ship, and the value of the shipwreck discovered. This job will require you to use your analytical skills and knowledge of symbols and societies to help you discover the origin of the coins.
ROLE:
You are a numismatist hired by a group of treasure hunters to help them determine the origin of the shipwreck they have discovered. You will need to analyze the numerous coins found at the shipwreck site.
AUDIENCE:
Your audience includes the team of treasure hunters and the investors who have funded this expedition. The investors need to be sure that the shipwreck has value before they agree to fund the excavation.
SITUATION:
A team of treasure hunters has just discovered an old shipwreck off of the coast of Florida. An initial dive yielded a number of coins. These coins need to be analyzed to determine their origin and the potential purpose that they served aboard the ship. Based upon your findings, the team will need to decide whether further investigation is warranted. The investors need to decide whether the shipwreck has value and is worth funding. Your research and decisions are of critical importance to all concerned. Please utilize the resources below to help you with this research and see coins that have been discovered from other shipwrecks.
Through the links below you will learn how these coins were critical to discovering the shipwreck's identity:
Atocha
SS Central America
SS New York Steamer
PRODUCTS:
Brochure
Your task is to create a brochure for investors interested in buying coins, jewels, and artifacts from the shipwreck site. You will need to provide information about these items convincing potential investors that investing in these items is a valuable investment. Be sure to include information about what gives the coins and jewels their value and what might cause that value to go up or down. Provide images of different available coins, jewels and artifacts along with information about unique or interesting facts that give them value. You should also identify the shipwreck in which these coins came from and provide information related to the ship and the shipwreck. You might consider including a table that shows the different available items for sale and their prices.
Radio Broadcast (Podcast)
Create a short radio broadcast that teaches investors about the value of coins and how the coins were found. Your broadcast should discuss how scarcity contributes to a coin's value as well as age and condition. Let them know where the coins were found and how they were found. Your main goal is to convince investors that buying old coins is a good value so be enthusiastic in your broadcast!
Research Paper/Report
Your task is to create a 1-2 page research report on the origin of coins, jewels, and/or artifacts and the route that the ship that wrecked took. The route is important as you consider why the coins and artifacts were in the ship's hold. Some questions that might be worth answering related to the artifacts might include: Where did the coins originate and what value did they possess? What are some of the most common symbols seen on coins and what is their significance? What materials have coins been made from through the ages? What artifacts were found and why do you believe they were being transported?
You should also provide information for the shipwreck. What country owned the ship and what was the ship's main purpose? Did the ship use specific shipping routes and where did these routes take the ship? Where and why did the ship sink? Consider adding a timeline or other images to enhance your report and to support your findings.