Create+an+Insurance+Company+Project

I use this insurance project with my 12th grade class.

I provide the students with a set of links that they can choose to use to find information.
 * Insurance Terms
 * Insurance Guide
 * Insurance Information Institute
 * Insure Lane
 * [|Money 101]
 * PA Insurance Department

Depending upon what the students already know about wikis, I provide a brief overview to editing, adding pages, creating hyperlinks, and importing graphics. Students are required to have all of these elements within their wiki.

This is the project outline and grading.

I do provide assistance during the project. I monitor the information they are finding, make suggestions, give interim grading based upon participation, and generally head them in the right direction.

About half way through the project, when students are getting stumped on what exactly to include in their wiki, I throw them a curve. I give them a list of vocabulary words and tell them they need to add a glossary page to their wiki. They are not to copy and paste definitions but put them in their own words. Once the page is complete, they need to go back into their wiki and find every instance that the glossary words show up and make them into hyperlinks to the glossary page. If necessary, (which it usually is) I extend the due date. This is the glossary terms document.

This is one of the student projects called SAM Insurance Company.

Karen Farmelo Otto-Eldred Jr. Sr. High School kfarmelo@ottoeldred.org