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Learning Experience 4

Week 4/ Lesson 10, 11, 12

This week focuses on the impact of the Industrial Revolution on New York State. 

Students will explore the building of the Erie Canal and the emergence of New York as an economic  power as a result.

They will then learn about tycoons of Industry who thrived in New York State and changed it's course. They will analyze different texts to understand whether the tycoons were Captains of Industry or Robber Barons.  

The development of transportation and finance will be the focus of this learning experience.

Summary

Learning Outcomes

Resources in nature, through trade and geography are very influential in innovation

How do people, laws and technology shape a nation?

Standards

4.6b In order to connect the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean, the Erie Canal was built. Existing towns expanded and new towns grew along the canal. New York City became the busiest port in the country.

 

4.6e Entrepreneurs and inventors associated with New York State have made important contributions to business and technology.

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.

RI.4.3

Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text. Including what happened and why. 

(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. 

Civic Participation:

Identify people in positions of power and how they can influence people's rights and freedoms.

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

  • Communication

  • Collaboration

  • Critical Thinking

  • Creativity

Instruction

Online

iMovie/Quicktime video of slides with voice over

PDF of texts

In Class

PPT

Copies from texts

Assessment

Google slides for students to add their own slides and allow for collaboration if strictly online.

Posters and Graphic Organizers can be used in class.  Google slides can provide for differentiation. 

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 depends on finding ways to access resources.

Students are introduced to the Erie Canal and why it was required. 

Vocabulary Focus: Canal

Aqueduct, Marvel, Ingenuity, 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: Industrial Revolution for Kids - Carla Mooney

Text: NYC DOE Grade 4 Unit 5 Resource

Student Resource

Text: Industrial Revolution for Kids - Carla Mooney

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 understand why the Erie Canal was so important in the growth of the nation and specifically New York State.  

They can further connect to the rise of the business tycoons and economic progress of this state. 

Kind of learning or assessment 

Learning:

Acquisition

4C's 

Creativity

Experiment

 

Inventions changed the way people lived and worked

Students will conduct an experiment to understand how canals work. 

This is a great opportunity to get some STEAM integrated into the learning of social studies. 

Students will understand how the technology behind canals work

Learning: 

Acquisition

Meaning Making

Transfer

Assessment:

Summative

4C's 

Critical Thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Creativity 

Step/ Experience

Resource

Visual/Link

Purpose

category

An Engineering Marvel
About The Erie Canal
History Of The Erie Canal
History Of the Erie Canal
Build a Canal Experiment Instructions Pg 2
Build a Canal Experiment Instructions Pg 1

Graphic Organizer

Work In Partners

 

A tool to help students find text evidence from readings and their experiment, about the challenges and benefits of the Erie Canal.

Student Resource

Text: NYC DOE Grade 4 Unit 5 Resource

This graphic organizer will help students understand what an engineering  challenge it was to build the canal. 

 

It will also help them see how once it was built it changed the face of industry, commerce and economics in the country and also in New York State. 

 

This will be used as a scaffold for the next learning experience that relates  to the financial tycoons from New York.

Learning: 

Acquisition

Meaning Making

Transfer

Assessment:

Summative

4C's 

Critical Thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Creativity 

Group Work & JigSaw

 

Introduction to the tycoons of New York

Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?

Students will learn about 3 imminent New York tycoons. 

John D. Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie

J.P. Morgan

They will work in groups of 6 for this project.

Within the group each partner pair will focus on one tycoon.

They will receive :

1. Copy of excerpt from Howard Zinn's text

2. Copy of text for their tycoon

3. Copy of Introduction text from Carla Mooney's text.

 

Once they have researched it they will jigsaw and be the "experts" who will teach it to the other 4 members. 

Student Resource

Students will read texts about the three personalities.

 

As they analyze texts to see how their actions might have positioned them as Captains of Industry or Robber Barrons. 

Learning: 

Acquisition

Meaning Making

Transfer

Assessment:

Summative

4C's 

Critical Thinking

Communication

Collaboration

Creativity 

Howard Zinn A Young People's History

Text Excerpt:A Young People's History Of The United States

Howard Zinn Ch 11

Student Resource

Text: Industrial Revolution for Kids - Carla Mooney

The Age of Big Business
The Age Of Big Business

Student Resource

Text: Industrial Revolution for Kids - Carla Mooney

Rockefeller
Rockefeller

Student Resource

Text: Industrial Revolution for Kids - Carla Mooney

JP Morgan
JP Morgan

Student Resource

Text: Perspective on The Industrial Revolution - Carla Mooney

Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie

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 

Poster Format Sort The Innovators Motivation

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

Which tycoon had the greatest influence on the American economy, business and history? Why do you think so?

Graphic Organizer:

Cause & Effect

Text: NYC DOE Grade 4 Unit 5 Resource

Tycoon Captain Vs Robber

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 the actions of the three tycoons.

 

They will interpret the information presented and explain the basis for their interpretation using evidence from the texts.

Learning: 

Acquisition

Meaning Making

Transfer

Assessment:

Summative

4C's 

Critical Thinking

Communication

Collaboration

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