ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
Andrew Turner
United States History
11th Grade
The Dust Bowl
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
Goals:
•Students will be able to determine the causes of the Dust Bowl by creating a
timeline of the events that caused the Dust Bowl.
•Students will be able to understand the impact that the Dust Bowl had on
individuals affected by the The Dust Bowl
Objectives:
Content/Knowledge:
Students will have to know the events leading to the Dust Bowl and the events
that followed. Students will accomplish this through filling in a timeline with
the events taught to them throughout the lesson.
Process/Skills:
Students will be able to use primary information to determine their own
opinion on the causes of the Dust Bowl and the impact that it had.
Values/Dispositions:
Students will be able to practice all of Krathwohl’s Taxonomy by collecting
information, and then discussing and working through that information with
their fellow classmates.
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
Rationale:
•This lesson will teach students about the causes and impact of the Dust
Bowl on the Southern Plains during the 1930s. Students will learn about
the role that humans and the environment played in causing the event,
and also the impact that the Dust Bowl had on the individuals affected
by this event.
Standards:
State – Illinois Common Core or Learning Standards
•16.B.5b (US) Analyze how United States political history has been
influenced by the nation’s economic, social and environmental history
National – NCSS Themes
•Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
•Standard 3: How the United States changed from the end of World War I
to the eve of the Great Depression
•3B :Explain the role of new technology and scientific research in the
rise of agribusiness and agricultural productivity.
Logical/Mathematical
Logical/Mathematical
•This intelligence could be addressed through
students breaking down the numbers related
to the agriculture production during the 1920s
and 1930s. Students will be given numbers
and graphs, and from this information they
will have to infer what these numbers mean
and how they relate to the events of the era.
Verbal/Linguistic
Verbal/Linguistic
•Students will listen to interviews from the
Library of Congress, and then they will
describe the interview to the class. They will
discuss the background of the interviewee
and the impact that the Dust Bowl had on this
individual.
Musical/Rhythmic
Musical/Rhythmic
•Students will be able to listen to and study
the music that came about from the Dust
Bowl. This information will come from the
Library of Congress collection that includes
recordings from the Dust Bowl.
Visual/Spatial
Visual/Spatial
•Students will be able to study images and
videos from the Dust Bowl. These images will
come from the Library of Congress and
videos will come from the PBS documentary
American Experience: Stories From the Dust
Bowl.
Body/Kinesthetic
Body/Kinesthetic
•Students will be introduced to a group of
luggage similar to what individuals from the
Dust Bowl had to carry when they were forced
to move from the Southern Plains to another
area of the country. This will help students
understand what these individuals had to deal
with during the Great Depression.
Interpersonal
Interpersonal
•Students will work together to create a
timeline of events related to the Dust Bowl.
As a group they will determine the major
events that need to be included, and they will
also be allowed to include any information
that they learned on their own from their work
with the Library of Congress.
Intrapersonal
Intrapersonal
•Students will bring together the information
that they have been introduced to, and they
will write a journal from the perspective of an
individual affected by the Dust Bowl. They
can use the images, videos, interviews, and
music to create this product.
Naturalistic
Naturalistic
•As part of their journal assignment, students
will write an entry related to the impact that
humans and the environment had on causing
the Dust Bowl. Students will use information
that they have learned through the lesson to
determine what they will include in their work.
ETE 335
Elementary Social Studies Lesson
Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
Visual Learning and Assessment:
Visual Learning, Assessment, and Online Resources:
Assessment:
1. The students will be assessed based on their
timeline and journal entries. The journal project will
have a rubric to help students understand what is
required of them on this project.
Online Resources:
2. http://delicious.com/stacks/view/Ctonyu