BEYOND-THE-BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

Name: Hannah Guidebeck

Grade Level: Third
Content Area: Famous Americans
Beyond-the-Basic Productivity Tool Used: Timeline
Standards Addressed:
SS3H2: Student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded peoples rights and
freedoms in a democracy.
a. Paul Revere (independence), Fredrick Douglass (civil rights), Susan B. Anthony
(womens rights), Mary McLeod Bethune (education), Franklin D. Roosevelt
(New Deal and World War II), Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human
rights), Thurgood Marshall (civil rights), Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society
and voting rights), and Cesar Chavez (workers rights).
Blooms Level of Critical Thinking:
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Description of how to implement in the class: Timeline could be used when
students are being asked to put events or times in chronological order. This would
allow a neater approach then having students hand draw and write their own. The
teacher could go through how to use Timeline on the SMART Board or Promethean
Board and give an example. Since Timeline is customizable, it could be used for
scheduling also. The teacher could represent the class schedule through Timeline to
show how easy it can be used.
If this lesson on Lyndon B. Johnson had come after the implementation of Timeline,
students could create their own with minimal instruction. Students would just be
asked to make a timeline using the product and including important events in
chronological order. This would then allow students to work independently and at
their own pace. Since this lesson is being used to show how to use and implement
Timeline, students will learn from it and all the features Timeline has to offer. Once
students have a clear understanding of how to use Timeline, they then will be able to
create their own in future lessons.
Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): I believe Timeline would fall
between a LoTi level 3 and 4. It sways between a level 3 and 4 only because students
would still need some direction when using. This is because students would be able to
create their own Timeline with minimal support. Students would just need
directions/instructions on how and what they are doing. This eventually could just be
a level 4 once students no longer need directions on how to use Timeline.
Description of the sample BBPT file provided *: This BBPT will be used in a
lesson on President Lyndon B. Johnson. Our timeline will outline important events that
took place during President Johnsons term in office. The LBJ timeline starts with his
vice presidency under President Kennedy in 1960 and ends with him not going for
reelection in 1968. Once seeing how the teacher version is created, students could
eventually make their own in future lessons. Timeline is a great resource for showing
important events in famous Americans lives per the third-grade standard.
Other comments about your proposed BBPT Activity: Timeline could also be
used when differentiation is needed. It is a more organized approach to putting
something in chronological order.
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