Consider the questions in the boxes below as you design learning experiences that support student achievement of desired results.
A. Building Background/Connecting to Students’ Current Understandings, Knowledge and Skills
· Brainstorm with students reasons people move today. Do they know someone that has moved? What caused this move to take place? Compare these reasons to reasons for moving to America.
· Brainstorm the challenge of moving today as compared to moving to America from a different country.
· Talk with students about loyalties that they have formed in their life thus far.
B. Student Exploration of Essential Questions
- Immigration to America: Reasons, types of people, and goals
- Students will explain the reasons why people move.
- What caused people to move to America?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding associated with immigration.
Tools: Checklist: Can students identify two details for immigrating and two examples to support each detail?
- French and Indian War
Loyalty: What are your expectations of loyalty from someone who is loyal to you?
- What is loyalty?
- What are the different types of loyalty? Family, friends, country
- How is loyalty maintained in a relationship?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding associated with loyalty.
Tools: Lock book to understand the goals and outcomes based on colonists v England
3. Proclamation of 1763:
What causes conflict to arise within a relationship that appears to be mutually positive?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding associated with loyalty.
Tools: Teacher/student simulation of not being able to go to the coat rack after the tardy bell.
4. Unfair Taxes:
What causes conflict to arise within a relationship that appears to be mutually positive?
How are the colonist loyalties broken by England?
How do conflict resolution strategies impact outcomes?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding associated with how to pay for the French and Indian War.
Tools: Development of Taxation Flip book to enhance understanding of cause/effect relationships. Students begin to understand taxation through assuming the view of a colonists and the teachers will be England. Students are given jobs and wages; then taxed according to popular items used in the classroom.
5. Boston Massacre:
Causes of Conflict:
· What is conflict?
· What are types of conflicts: within a family, school, community, state, country, world?
· Perspectives within conflicts
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding of conflict and perspectives.
Tools: Timeline of events that lead up Boston Massacre.
6. Colonists Frustrations:
How are the colonist loyalties broken by England?
How do conflict resolution strategies impact outcomes?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding of conflict and perspectives. Connections to be made to increased taxation, Search and Seizure, Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Committee of Correspondance
Tools: Timeline of events that lead up Boston Massacre.
7. Tea Act:
What are your expectations of loyalty from someone who is loyal to you?
How are the colonist loyalties broken by England?
How do conflict resolution strategies impact outcomes?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding of conflict and perspectives. Connections to be made to increased taxation through the Tea Act
8. Boston Tea Party:
What are your expectations of loyalty from someone who is loyal to you?
How are the colonist loyalties broken by England?
How do conflict resolution strategies impact outcomes?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding of conflict and perspectives. Connections to be made to increased taxation through the Tea Act and repercussions
Tools: Cause and effect flip book associated with the events of the Boston Tea Party
9. Intolerable Acts:
How do conflict resolution strategies impact outcomes?
How does strong leadership advance a civilization struggling to thrive?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding of conflict and perspectives. Connections to be made to cause and effect relationships
10. First Continental Congress:
How do conflict resolution strategies impact outcomes?
How does strong leadership advance a civilization struggling to thrive?
What are the different types of loyalty?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding of conflict and perspectives. Connections to be made to cause and effect relationships and to how a group of people unite to make a change.
11. Paul Revere’s Ride to Lexington and Concord:
How do conflict resolution strategies impact outcomes?
How does strong leadership advance a civilization struggling to thrive?
What are the different types of loyalty?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding of conflict and perspectives. Connections to be made to cause and effect relationships and to how a group of people unite to make a change.
Tools: Understanding Revere’s ride book.
12. Second Continental Congress:
How do conflict resolution strategies impact outcomes?
How does strong leadership advance a civilization struggling to thrive?
What are the different types of loyalty?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding of conflict and perspectives. Connections to be made to cause and effect relationships and to how a group of people unite to make a change.
13. Battle of Bunker Hill:
How does strong leadership advance a civilization struggling to thrive?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding of conflict and perspectives. Connections to be made to cause and effect relationships and to how a group of people unite to make a change.
14. Declaration of Independence:
How does strong leadership advance a civilization struggling to thrive?
How do conflict resolution strategies impact outcomes?
What are the different types of loyalty?
Strategy: Students will engage in a guided discussion with the teacher to develop understanding of conflict and perspectives. Connections to be made to cause and effect relationships and to how a group of people unite to make a change.
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Comments (3)
kellyf@psdschools.org said
at 9:48 pm on Feb 3, 2010
Hey Bethke!! Your unit sounds awesome. Would love to know more about the inquiry journals (using technology??) and what your "digital age learning experiences and assessments" look like!! With Jay on your team, I am sure it will be great! Hoping Eyestone will be able to use some of your creative ideas!
joyd@... said
at 4:03 pm on Feb 4, 2010
We love the debate for your assessment! It incorporates various standards and gets students actively involved!
Great job so far!
Linton Team
Jill Brennan said
at 1:29 pm on Feb 8, 2010
I love your big idea, your essential quesitons, and the whole DEBATE for assessment! This looks like an excellent start. - Lopez
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