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
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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
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
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
Text Excerpt:A Young People's History Of The United States
Howard Zinn Ch 11
Student Resource
Text: Industrial Revolution for Kids - Carla Mooney
Student Resource
Text: Industrial Revolution for Kids - Carla Mooney
Student Resource
Text: Industrial Revolution for Kids - Carla Mooney
Student Resource
Text: Perspective on The Industrial Revolution - Carla Mooney
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
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
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