Beyond The Basic Productivity Tools Lesson Plan

Lesson Idea Name: How the Past Shapes our Present Content Area: Social Studies Grade Level(s): 5th Grade Content Standard Addressed: SS5H6 Describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950- 1975. Technology Standard Addressed: Empowered Learner; Knowledge Constructor Selected Technology Tool: Timeline, PowerPoint URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/ Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s): ☒ Remembering

☒ Understanding

☒ Applying

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level): ☐ Level 1: Awareness ☐ Level 2: Exploration ☐ Level 5: Expansion

☒ Analyzing

☒ Level 3: Infusion

☐ Evaluating

☒ Creating

☐ Level 4: Integration

☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Engagement: Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge Representation: Offer ways of customizing the display of information Action and Expression: Optimize access to tools and assistive technologies Lesson idea implementation: The students will be creating a timeline of important events, people, and developments that happened between 1950-1975 using the application Timeline (or PowerPoint). The project will be introduced with a discussion about what the students already know about the time period. After the discussion, the teacher will introduce the project and the topics they need to research and place on the timeline. This project could take up to two days because of the research that is required. The students learning will be accessed by having them print out the timeline with their research to turn in. The final product will inform students of important events, people, and developments that took place during this time period that changed the American lifestyle. The teacher would be a resource, to help students in the right direction with research and making sure they are using correct citation. You could extend the student learning to a higher learning level by having them post it to the classes blog making it available for others to see. I would conclude the lesson by having another discussion to bring it full circle, such as talking about how the events influence our world today, or even our classroom. I would provide feedback on their timelines by having them turn it in and grading them based on the provided rubric. Reflective Practice: This activity could impact student learning because they could be learning about key events that shape the present. I designed this lesson to introduce a unit of study, so I could further extend this lesson by having them split up into groups and go into more detail about each event, person, or development during this time period. I could further enhance this project with a game of kahoot! after to make sure they retained the information they learned. Spring 2018_SJB

Spring 2018_SJB