Driving Question: How has technology influenced your life and how different would modern life
be without it?
Day Standards & Learning Assessment Technology Used
Learning Activities Objective(s) 1 Standard: Students will Students will write - Tablet to begin learning an exit ticket to the view the HS.H4.2 Explain about the teacher explaining photos how artistic, Renaissance- an why they feel the - Printer to philosophical, and important point in Renaissance was print the scientific ideas history for art, so important. photos if have developed science, and tablets are and shaped society technology. Students will not and institutions. explain how they available Activities will think the - Group Learning include: Renaissance still discussion Objective: affects them to this board (i.e. - Analyzing day. Padlet) Students will be photos of able to understand artwork why the events of pre and the Renaissance post were so important renaissanc and they will e explain to the - Group teacher why and discussion how this historical , why is period still affects this event them today. so monument al? 2 Standard: Students will Students will write - Resources partake in activity a reflection on provided by HS.H2.4 Compare where they have what they learned the teacher causes and effects to develop their from the isolation to build of isolationism “civilization” activity. They will their and globalism. with a group of 3- include the civilization 4 students while difficulty of - Internet to Learning being separated advancing without look up any Objective: from other group outside help questions members. (easy/hard), the they may Students will be differences have able to evaluate between groups the causes of with different isolationism and materials, and why globalism and this is important to assess that would understand. affect a civilization’s technological development. Students will then create a civilization that is separate from the rest of the class and then compare with each other. 3 Standard: Students will be The students’ - Internet to partaking in a assessment will be search for HS.SP3.2 class debate about through their sources to Gather relevant the Industrial resources: use in their information from Revolution. One argument multiple sources side will argue all - Did the - Lectures representing a the benefits and students and videos wide range of why it was a good find that back up views while using event, the other credible their claims origin, authority, side will argue resources? - School structure, context, the opposite. - What are databases and corroborative some areas value of the source During this class, that they to guide the the students will struggled selection. be finding in? credible resources - Did they Learning they can use find any Objective: towards their sources for arguments. the Students will be opposing able to construct The students will view? an argument that is give their based on the resources to the resources they find teacher to check during class. them. Students will report their sources to the teacher and discuss why their resources are valid. 4 Standard: The students will The students’ - Not much be presenting assessment will be technology HS.SP3.8 their arguments based on their should be Present arguments on the Industrial involvement in the used in this and explanations Revolution. debate: scenario that feature ideas Using the unless and perspectives resources they - Did the students on issues and have gathered the students have their topics to reach a previous class; show an facts and range of audiences they will partake understandi sources and venues in a class debate. ng of their written using print, oral, One side will side of the down on an and digital argue for and the argument? electronic technologies. other will argue - Did each device. against. student Learning participate Objective: in the discussion? Students will be - Did the able to properly students debate their side of give the argument and thoughtful justify why their points that side is right. The show their students will then investigatio be able to analyze n into the the other side’s topic? arguments and come up with counter arguments. 5 Standard: Students will Students’ - Apps come up with a assessment will be students can HS.G2.4 flyer explaining through their flyer use to make Evaluate the use how the Industrial and whether or not the flyer if and sustainability Revolution will they show an they decide of natural negatively affect understanding of not go resources. farmers and the the topic and digital environment. It is followed the (Photoshop, Learning to be made in the requirements of Canva, Objective: style of a political the flyer project. various cartoon, with painting Students will be exaggerated apps, and able to investigate features and texts, more) how popular in order to really - The internet revolutions (like drive their point. to search for the Industrial Age) additional affected the lives sources that of the common have not folk. From there been students will provided by design a flyer that the teacher aims to show the negative side of technological advancement. 6 Standard: Students will see Students will work - Programs to how hierarchies together to come write down HS.H3.3 Compare and social classes up with short their the ways in which were formed. analyses about analyses economic each journal entry. (Word, philosophies Afterwards, they Google influenced will read and Students can work Docs) political, analyze primary together in a group - Classroom economic, and source journal or individually, but website to social entries from the must be able to submit developments. different describe the (Google perspectives and journal entries in at classroom, Learning discuss their least one Canvas, Objective: thoughts and paragraph with full Blackboard) feelings about the sentences. Students will be text. able to examine journal entries in order to outline in a short analysis how social classes and hierarchies affected society. 7 Standard: Students will be Students will write - Students in randomly divided a reflection based the elite HS.H3.5 Explain into working on their assigned class will be how different class and elite social class and given labor systems class. From here, their opinions on laptops and developed and students will go their role. fewer things affected societies about the rest of to research over time. the class period Was it fair? Did while the by being given you enjoy? What working Learning different could be done to class with Objectives: workloads improve the role? be given (pretend How are the roles textbooks Students will be workloads) and beneficial to the and more able to describe different “pay” community? Etc. things to their designated for their work. research roles and whether that made life Halfway through easier or harder. the class, the Students will roles will switch. examine their roles and explain in a reflection the pros and cons. 8 Standard: Students will Students will - Students partake in partake in a class will list off HS.H4.3 Examine classroom discussion on how the various how access to discussions about they feel the forms of information and how technology “technology free” technology technology has has influenced environment at the been used to their lives. affected their beginning of influence society learning. the class Students will Learning identify Was it better? Was Objective: technology in the it worse? How has classroom technology shaped Students will be (anything from a the way education able to list and mechanical pencil works? Did you locate the various to a smartphone) enjoy this activity? technological items in the After students Students should classroom. have identified all reflect on this Students then will the technology in exercise in order to describe their the room, the understand how technology-free teacher will take technology affects experience in the the students their day to day form of class outside and all lives, even if they discussion. they are allowed are not completely to take with them aware of it. is a piece of paper and a wooden pencil (provided by the teacher). The teacher will conduct the lesson outside to give students an idea of how it was like to teach and learn without (much) technology. 9 Standard: For this lesson, Students will write - There the teacher will an exit ticket based should not HS.H1.7 Analyze bring in someone on the speaker’s be any how technological who can presentation. They technology innovation and professionally will be sure to used in this trade has affected speak on this include one new class other economic topic (economics fact that they than the development and teacher, someone learned, how the speaker’s transformed who rose up from presentation relates form of societies the bottom, etc.) to their life, and a presentation in order to give question they Learning students an idea would like Objectives: of how this is answered. real-modern life Students will be and not just an able to infer from aspect of history. the speaker’s presentation how technological innovation has affected their lives by writing it on an exit ticket. 10 Standard: Students will Students will be - Presentation work together in taking on the role programs to HS.SP1.3 groups to come of an inventor explain and Evaluate the up with a timeline during the pitch their significance of to show the Industrial age of inventions past events as they chronological technology. (PowerPoint relate to their own order of each , Prezi, lives and the revolution and Students will Google world. invention that research one Slides, they have learned invention that they YouTube, Learning about up until this find significant homemade Objective: point. and create a pitch commercial, as to why that etc.) Students will be Students will invention is - Students can able to design an have a quick needed (I.E. why is utilize any inventor’s pitch debate on which this invention technology based on who they invention they needed, why is it tools they picked and the think is the most important, what have in their research they have important (there benefit will come arsenal, they conducted. will be four from it). just have to Students will groups with four check with describe their different Students can the teacher inventions and inventions) present their first. explain why it is a project in any way good idea to invest they want, but they it it. must present as though they are the inventor themselves.