Main Page for the Rice Project

Overview of the Project

The Thinking Process Behind the Rice Project

Overview of the multimedia project storyboard for the Rice Project

Resources to help you create projects

January, 2004: New compilation of links related strictly to rice

Locating Resources: Weaving a web of possibilities

We've started a list of multimedia resources available via the web on a resources page. Check out everything from sound files, movie files, panoramas, and images. More will be added. Eventually, I'll even get them sorted into categories. These resources go far beyond the category of rice, but then the topic of rice can expand into some pretty interesting areas, too!
 Click here!

Specific unit of study that could be a subsection of the Rice Project or could act as the content for the "Past" component:
From the National Park Service - When Rice Was King

Specific unit of study that could be a subsection of the Rice Project or could act as the content for the "Present" component:
From the AskAsia site - Rice, the Global Crop


Multimedia resources kindly provided by the US Rice Producers Association in Houston, Texas to support teachers

Lesson plans in a variety of subject areas that incorporate information about rice while addressing objectives in other subject areas. Go to the RiceRomp site at the US Rice Producers Association where the lessons are located: http://www.riceromp.com

Overview of a generic multimedia project flow chart


K-W-H-L Technique: This is a one-page PDF file

Cooperative planning sheet: Simple outline to streamline communication between the classroom, the media specialist, and the technology specialist

Let's ask the media specialist: 1 page PDF

Organizational issues to consider before embarking on a project

The importance of making back-up copies of your files.
Click here.

Organizing your project folders. Click here.

Tips on what should be in your folders. Click here.

Rice Project Variations - 1 (3 pages)

Rice Project Variations - 2

Correlations to the National History Standards

South Carolina Curriculum Standards Across Subject Areas

Annotated Website List for the Rice Project

Photos: Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation - a former rice plantation

Photos: Hampton Plantation (around 43 photos currently)

Photos: Katy, Texas (around 116 photos currently)

VR of Hampton Plantation showing the Washington Oak

6 VR's of Heritage Museum in Katy, Texas showing examples of implements used in rice farming in Texas and the interior of the museum. Take a tour!

The Rice Project - Multimedia File - using eZediaMX
Being posted after the conference
(If you're not using eZediaMX, I suggest you look at the multimedia planning flowcharts links at the top of this page and the model provided in the discussion of the Geographic Inquiry Model provided here.)


The Plantation Project: This is HUGE! - 9mb zipped

Katy Heritage Museum project: Single frame project that demonstrates how to link a movie off of a hotspot in a vr


Sources for other lessons
National Park Service Categories:
Teaching with Historic Places by Theme
Teaching with Historic Places by Time Period
Teaching with Historic Place by National Standards
Teaching with Historic Places by Location

Discover Carolina: Hampton Plantation