TITLE OF LEARNING EXPERIENCE: The Revolutionary War: A Timeline

WRITTEN BY: Deborah Payne and Jody Hildreth

LEARNING CONTEXT

Effective Communicator: Standard 1:

The student will read, write, listen, and speak for information and understanding.

Benchmark 1: Listening and reading to acquire information and understanding involves collecting data, facts, and ideas; discovering relationships, concepts, and generalizations; and using knowledge from oral, written, and electronic sources.

Social Studies: Standard 1:

History of the United States and New York-Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.

Critical Thinker: Standard 2:

The student uses/applies knowledge in meaningful ways.

Benchmark 1: Decision making

-identifies important and appropriate alternatives to be considered

-makes a selection that answers the initial decision question

WHERE DOES THIS FIT INTO THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM?

This Learning Experience takes place after the students have a solid background of the American Revolutionary War. It involves note taking skills, writing skills, and an artistic representation. The students will enter their projects into a single Power Point slide. All slides will be combined chronologically into a time line. This will be designed to be a fairly easy project.

WHAT MUST STUDENTS KNOW AND/OR BE ABLE TO DO TO SUCCEED WITH THIS EXPERIENCE.

PROCEDURE

Procedure: Each student spends three 45 minute sessions in the library completing three scavenger hunts on the Revolutionary War. On the fourth day in the library, each student gets one person or event from the scavenger hunt to research. Each student spends one to two days researching their person or event. After the research process, each student has to write two to three sentences describing their person's most important contribution to the American Revolutionary War.

After the writing assignment is complete, the students must depict their person or event through a drawing done in landscape format on a blank 8x11 sheet of paper. This drawing should not have any words written on it, but should portray an actual event.

The students, with teacher assistance, will scan their picture in the computer lab. While one student is using the scanner, the other students will be typing their sentences into the Power Point slide. The students will have already had one to two lessons on how to format text in Power Point. Each student will save their slide to disk. The teacher will then combine all of the slides into a single Power Point project.

INSTRUCTIONAL/ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATIONS

Students will be familiar with proper keyboarding techniques. They will be attending computer lab and have available the assistance of the classroom teacher, remedial reading teacher, and computer aide.

TIME REQUIRED

3 sessions of 45 minutes for research

2 sessions of 45 minutes for students to draw/write their captions

2 sessions of 45 minutes to scan pictures

RESOURCES

Library: World Book Encyclopedia

Social Studies Textbook

Other Revolutionary War books

Scavenger Hunt-3 pages

Graphic Organizer

Classroom: Blank paper for drawing Computer Lab: Computers with Power Point

Rubric for writing and drawing Large screen TV for modeling

Crayons/Markers Scanner

ASSESSMENT PLAN

Students will determine the rubrics for writing and drawing by setting up the standards for getting a 4. (Example of rubric is attached)

The teacher, librarian, and computer aide will observe the students using their research skills as well as their computer techniques.