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Lesson Idea Name: MLK Timeline

Content Area: Social Studies
Grade Level(s): 5th

Content Standard Addressed:

SS5H6: Describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950- 1975.

Technology Standard Addressed:

Standard 3 Knowledge Constructor: Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to
construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves
and others.

Selected Technology Tool: Timeline-ReadWriteThink.org

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): ReadWriteThink.org

Blooms Taxonomy Level(s):

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

Level 1: Awareness Level 2: Exploration Level 3: Infusion Level 4: Integration
Level 5: Expansion Level 6: Refinement

Lesson idea implementation:

I will use my own timeline that I have created based on Rosa Parks, and show it to the students. Then the
students will be instructed to research their own information regarding Martin Luther King Jr. and then to
highlight important events using the timeline creator from ReadWriteThink.org.

The students will be given a week to complete the entire project, including practicing their presentation,
however the projects shall take no more than one day to complete in one sitting. Students will need to have a
minimum of six major events in each timeline and to explain why they chose the events that they have.

Based off of the students presentation, the teacher will assess their understanding of the content standard,
and also their use of technology in order to demonstrate their findings. The teacher will complete the rubric
for each student, giving any additional feedback necessary.

Due to the choice given to students to highlight important events of their own choosing, many different
points of MLKs life will be presented to the class, aside from the usual information regarding the Civil Rights
Movement. Students may choose other events regarding his personal life, or his religious life. This in turn will
promote optimal learning of several points of MLKs life.

Summer 2017_SJB