Lesson Plans

Standards-Based Outcomes (MDE):

Technology:

II. Evaluate the Societal and Environmental Impacts of Technology

Content Standard II, 2: All students will evaluate the societal and environmental impacts of technology to make informed civic, social, and economic decisions.

1. Use historical developments to generalize about the interaction between a society and the technology its people decide to create, support, and use.

lV. Determine the Appropriate Technology to Use

Content Standard lV, 4: All students will be able to determine the appropriate technology to obtain, organize, manipulate, evaluate, and communicate information in any learning environment.

1. Apply technology to obtain, organize, manipulate, evaluate, and communicate information in any learning environment.

Prior Knowledge:

Students must have computer skills which enable them to:

- use computer encyclopedia software for research purposes,
- access the Internet for online research,
- use word processing to type notes and a bibliography,
- use an authoring program to complete their virtual museum projects, and
- use multimedia and graphics CD resources to enhance reports.

Cue Set:

The teacher presents a series of questions for class discussion.

- How does the computer effect our lives today?
- How did the computer achieve the importance it now has in our lives?
- What events or needs brought about the invention of the computer?
- Did inventions from past centuries have anything to do with the development of today’s computer?

Best Shot Instruction:

The teacher groups the students into teams of three or four.
The teacher introduces the students to the five categories/generations of computing devices and provides the students with a list of inventions and/or inventors to be researched.
Each student identifies an invention/inventor to research in consultation with his/her team members. The teacher must approve the selections to assure that there are no duplicate inventions and that each generation is adequately represented.
The teacher presents a model of a bibliography for documenting Internet and electronic encyclopedia sources.
Students conduct research using electronic encyclopedias and the Internet. They record their invention and bibliography information using a word processing program on the computer.
The students share their research results with their respective team members.
The teacher presents a model for the students to follow when creating their virtual museums with presentation software.
Team members work together to plan, design, and complete a virtual museum to be presented to the class.

Reteaching and Enrichment:

If a student does not produce results that are usable by the team, the other team members are encouraged to help the student with his/her part of the project. This serves as enrichment for the team and reteaching for the student.
Students are encouraged to include additional inventions in their museums for enrichment.

Review and Closure:

Teams share their virtual museums with their classmates. Discussions of possible influences on the development of their inventions and/or logical inventions to be created in the future may be conducted.

Assessment:

The students are evaluated on the completion and quality of the project components.

- The students’ research records and bibliographies of sources are judged for accuracy as well as pertinence to the project.
- The presentations of the virtual museums to the class are assessed with a predetermined rubric.

Note:

The following Web sites are helpful in this project:

www.arts.arizona.edu/mar203/ITHISTORYOutline.htm
www.arts.arizona.edu/mar203/ITHISTORYOutline2.htm
www.microsoft.com/mscorp/museum/timeline.asp?thedir=history
www.microsoft.com/mscorp/museum/home.asp
www.mcrel.org/resources/technology/impact.asp
www.aimnet.com/%7emssm/sy283files/pearlstein_p.html
www.cmtcanada.ca/CANOE2000/history_6.html
www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq80/
www.warbaby.com/FG_test/comp_history.html
www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/comp_hd.html
www.cyberstreet.com/hcs/museum/chron.htm
www.westonka.k12.mn.us/grandview/technology/g7computers.html
www.gmcc.ab.ca/~supy/lec02.htm
www4.wittenberg.edu/academics/mathcomp/bjsdir/bjshistory.shtml

East Detroit Public Schools Lesson Design

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Lesson Design