shane o'brien's edu 5170 technology lesson plan

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Shane O'Brien 11/7/14

Lesson Plan Integrating Technology Ed Tech I

Standards:

Content Area:Social Studies Consider different historians' analyses of the same event or development in

United States history to understand how different viewpoints and/or frames of

reference influence historical interpretations.

Evaluate the validity and credibility of historical interpretations of important

events or issues in New York State or United States history, revising the

interpretations as new information is learned and other interpretations are

developed.

o (Taken directly from NYS Standards)

Technology Standards:

Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.o 1. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use

information from a variety of sources and media.

o 2. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and

develop innovative products and processes using technology.

Identify trends and forecast possibilities.

(Taken directly from ISTE NETS for Students standards)

Lesson Objective(s):

Content Area:

Students will be taught about Abraham Lincoln and his important role in United

States history. I will portray all of the different viewpoints surrounding Abraham

Lincoln to my students.

Students will learn all of the different viewpoints.

Students will also learn the ideologies of the time period surrounding Abraham

Lincoln.

Students will learn how to interpret political cartoons based on Abraham Lincoln.

Students will learn how to correctly use primary and secondary sources based on

Abraham Lincoln, in order to prepare for an upcoming assignment.

Students will learn how to analyze, interpret, compare, and contrast these

sources in order to come up with their own conclusion in regards to Abraham

Lincoln.

Students will learn how to write an argumentative paper, using primary andsecondary sources to draw their conclusions.

Students will also learn how to cite their sources, using the Chicago Style Citation

format.

Technology:

Students will learn how to take and interpret relevant information from specific

types of digital media, such as documentaries.


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Students will learn how to navigate a website and find relevant political

cartoons.

Students will learn how to use scholarly online database to research and analyze

sources based around Abraham Lincoln.

Students will learn how navigate and use a citation website in order to make a

bibliography for their argumentative essay.

Introduce the Learning Activity:

A.)Students will be told they are watching clips of video on Abraham Lincoln. I

will then share background information about the clips of video and why it was

made. I will also discuss the role of political cartoons in history and I will show

the students how to understand them. After watching the videos and discussing

the political cartoons, I will have the students break up into small groups and

discuss whether it was a good title. As the students are in small groups, theteacher will be walking around facilitating discussion.

B.)I will provide a motivator by having the students look out for specific

quotations from Lincoln and have them jot them down. I will also provide leading

discussion questions about the political cartoons. I will get my students

interested in this lesson by providing the background in a manner that gets the

students thinking before the video is played.

Provide Information:

A.)In for this lesson to be effective, I will need to have all the definitions,

explanations, descriptions, procedures, examples, and samples prepared for this

lesson ahead of time. In order to do this I will put myself in the perspective of a

student learning this for the first time.I will also have all this information

available on my website and have the website available to my students.

Provide Practice:

A.)I will have the students go to the class resource website page. Students will

begin with a quick warm up lesson on how to search for scholarly sources using

online databases, that will be linked on my website page. I will have the studentsplay around on them and try to find sources on different viewpoints of Abraham

Lincoln. This will also give the students a lot of access to different definitions

surrounding Abraham Lincoln and the time period, which will give the students a

chance to ask me to define the ones they dont know.

Once every student finds a source that they think is relevant, have them open

the son of citation machine website (www.citationmachine.net/chicago/cite-a-
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book/edit) and learn how to find and manually enter the important information

in order to correctly cite the journal. This will provide the students with practice

for later on in the lesson as well as for college.

After this, have the students open a Microsoft Word document. Have the

students title the page, Bibliography, and paste their citations. This will be the

start to creating a bibliography page for the paper they will be writing later. Once every student is caught up on all of this information, have the students

break up into groups of 3 and go to a Political Cartoon website

(abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/cartoon-corner/president-lincoln/) and find

political cartoons that have to do with different viewpoints of Abraham Lincoln.

o Once every group has a different cartoon, have each group share what

they discovered to the whole class.

This lesson will be incorporating technology because students will be spending a

lot of time navigating different websites and learning how to use online

databases and citation sites to do scholarly historical research.

Provide Knowledge of Results:

A.) I will provide verbal feedback to the students on their practice efforts by

giving them comments and criticisms on their individual and group work. For

example, after each group finishes presenting their analyzes of their political

cartoons, I will give them positive feedback as well any criticisms where they

could have looked at the cartoon differently. This will be done for every group

and will be a form of informal low-stakes grading. For individual feedback, I will

be walking around the room throughout the whole lesson, giving verbal

feedback on the students research using the online databases and their use of

the citation machines.

B.) I will provide written feedback to my students on their practice efforts by

grading the students on their use of the technology in this lesson. In this

example, the students will not be graded on their ability to effectively navigate

the websites, but instead I will grade the students on their participation and

their diligence throughout the lesson. Therefore, I will continually encourage my

students to actively participate throughout the lesson.

Review the Activity:

In order to review the activity, I will finish the lesson by having my students wrapup the lesson. In this wrap up, I will have the students pick out the topics that

they thought were important. I will make sure that I guide the discussion in the

direction that I want it to go, as well as review the topics that I have deemed

important.
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Method of Assessment:

I will assess the content by assessing the students participation in the

discussions. The lesson is set up in a way that it will reach each student because

with of the small group discussion, the individual work, and the classroom

discussion. I will also be assessing the students by using a rubric, that I will create, to grade

their argumentative essay, which will be based on their research of Abraham

Lincoln that was taught in this lesson.

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