Learning Experience 3
Week 3/ Lesson 7, 8, 9
This week focuses on how the Industrial Revolution changed the way people lived and worked.
Students will examine the cause and effect of technological changes in America between the late 1700s and the early 1800s to learn about the needs of the people and the challenges that faced the nation.
The development of transportation and communication will be the focus of this learning experience.
Summary
Learning Outcomes
Advancements lead to different experiences for different people
Resources in nature, through trade and geography are very influential in innovation
Did the Industrial Revolution make life better for everybody?
How do people, laws and technology shape a nation?
Standards
4.6c Improved technology such, as the steam engine and the telegraph made transportation and communication faster and easier. Later developments in transportation and communication technology had an effect on communities, the State, and the world.
R1.4.1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
(Standards: 1, 3, 4; Themes: TCC, GEO, ECO, TECH)
practice
focus
Economics and economic systems:
Explain what necessitates decision making
Gathering, interpreting and using evidence:
Create an understanding of the past by using primary and secondary sources.
Comparison and contextualization:
Identify multiple perspectives on a historical event.
Recognize the relationship between geography, economics, and history in social studies.
learning
Theme
Time, Continuity, and Change (TCC)
Geography, Humans, and the Environment (GEO)
Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems (ECO)
Science, Technology, and Innovation (TECH)
Kind of Learning
Acquisition (A)
Meaning Making (M)
Transfer (T)
4C's
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Communication
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Collaboration
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Critical Thinking
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Creativity
Instruction
Online
iMovie/Quicktime video of slides with voice over
In Class
PPT
Assessment
Google slides for students to add their own slides and allow for collaboration
Poster and Graphic Organizers can be used in class or online on google slides.
Essential
question
Enduring Understanding
What the student will see/read/listen to/think about/ do
Innovation depended on the natural resources available.
Further innovation also depended on finding ways to access resources.
Students are introduced to 2 maps that show them the Americas in 1800 and 1830.
They will analyze Map A to start
Then Compare to life in Map B
Vocabulary Focus:
Farming, Ranching, Canals are explained in English and in languages of students
The Social studies glossary can be provided to all students as required. This will deepen understanding and encourage home language, discourse specific acquisition.
Information about the resource
Teaching Resource
Text: NYC DOE Grade 4 Unit 5 Resource
Text: Industrial Revolution for Kids - Carla Mooney
Student Resource
Text: NYC DOE Grade 4 Unit 5 Resource
Visual Reference or Link for the resource
Why the resource is relevant to learning
Students are introduced to the idea of how natural resources play a part in the innovation and change process of a nation.
This allows students to compare the two maps and identify the changes between the life of people in the early1800s and 1830.
Students will verbally list the differences they notice in the two maps and turn and talk to a partner about the changes.
Kind of learning or assessment
Learning:
Acquisition
Meaning Making
Transfer
Assessment:
Formative
4C's
Critical Thinking
Communication
Collaboration
Inventions changed the way people lived and worked
Students are introduced to 3 major technological advances that changed the country.
Mills
The Cotton Gin
Steamboat
The Lowell Mill and other developments led to child labor.
The cotton gin created a deeper problem of Slavery in the south
The Steamboat and the eventual construction of the rail road led to the displacement of 1000s of Native Americans.
Students will work in pairs to analyse text and supporting documents to find cause and effect relationships between these events.
Learning: Acquisition
Step/ Experience
Resource
Visual/Link
Purpose
category
Text: How Machines Changed Culture. Industrial Revolution for Kids - Baby Professor
Supporting Resource:
Glossaries for ELL learners
Differentiation Resource:
Student Resource
Text: NYC DOE Grade 4 Unit 5 Resource
Supporting Resource
Text: Perspectives on the Industrial Revolution , Carla Mooney
Student Resource
Text: NYC DOE Grade 4 Unit 5 Resource
Supporting Resource
Text: Industrial Revolution For Kids: The People and Technology That Changed the World, Cheryl Mullenbach
Cause & Effect
How did the invention affect America and was the invention helpful or harmful?
Once students have analyzed the preceding documents they will proceed to complete the following graphic organizer.
This activity will allow students to explore the both the positive and negative effects of progress on the nation in the 1800s
They will interpret the information presented and explain the basis for their interpretation using evidence from the maps and texts.
Learning:
Acquisition
Meaning Making
Transfer
Assessment:
Summative
4C's
Critical Thinking
Communication
Collaboration
Graphic Organizer:
Cause & Effect
Group Activity
Cause & Effect
Students work in continue their posters and add innovators into categories.
Students will use these posters through the unit to keep adding names and will also be encouraged to add names of other innovators they know.
Student Resource
Graphic Organizer
Poster
Continued from Learning Experience two, this activity will continue for the entire unit.
Learning:
Acquisition
Meaning Making
Transfer
Assessment:
Formative
4 C's
Collaboration
Creativity
Communication
Critical Thinking
Text: NYC DOE Grade 4 Unit 5 Resource