Beth Fishburn
CONTENT LITERACY STRATEGY
NAME OF STRATEGY: Discussion
ADAPTED FROM: McKenna, M., & Robinson, R. (2009). Teaching
through text: Reading and writing in the content areas. p.138-139
CONTENT AREA: Social Studies
GRADE LEVEL: 5
TEXTBOOK AND PAGES ADAPTED: Bower, B. , Lobdell, J.
(2001) History Alive! America’s Past, Palo Alto, CA: Teacher’s
Curriculum Institute, p. 208
OBJECTIVE: After reading chapter 20.2 in History Alive!, students will
demonstrate understanding about how technology and ideas have affected
the way people lived, through participation in a discussion of the changes
that occurred during the Industrial Revolution, and how those changes
affect how we live and work today, and notice similar kinds of changes
happening today.
Kid friendly objective: After I read chapter 20.2 in my text book.
I will show that I understand how the Industrial Revolution changed
how people lived and worked by sharing my thoughts, ideas and
opinions in a class discussion. I will also connect those past changes
in how people lived and worked to today, share changes in ways
people live and work today, that may be caused by technology as
well.
GLE 4.2.3 Understands how technology and ideas have
affected the way people live and change their values, beliefs,
and attitudes
MATERIALS NEEDED
Agenda written on large paper,exit slip.
ACADEMIC ENGLISH: goods, products, industries, dramatic,
transcontinental, canals, steamboats, factories, offices, quantities, carriages,
skyscrapers.
Signal words: After, Before, By, The first, Now, More and more.
Appositives: Example: During this time, new industries, or businesses,
caused such dramatic changes that together they are called a “revolution.”
Cause/Effect relationships
After the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution changed the way Americans lived
and worked.
During this time, new industries, or businesses, caused such dramatic changes
that together they are called a “revolution.”
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. Now people and goods
could travel across the entire United States in a week.
PROCEDURES:
1. Go over agenda:
-Have students read kid friendly objective, then one student restate it in
their own words.
-Review changes in lives after Civil War from yesterday
-Discussion goals
-Discussion behaviors
-Discuss
-Summarize
- Exit slip
2. Establish Set:
Good morning, class! (Good morning)
Yesterday, you read the chapter in your history text about the Industrial
Revolution, and took some good Cornell notes. Today, we are going to
use those notes, come up with some questions, and hold a discussion
using some of your questions and some of my questions.
3. Launch:
First, let’s review a little; in what ways did lives change after the Civil War,
having to do with the technologies of the Industrial Revolution? (Call on a
few students -Answers about living in the country before, cities after;
transportation changes from horses and carriages to trains, cars,
steamboats; growing and making food and goods to buying mass
produced food and goods; staying close to home to traveling far)
The discussion goals today are to use our understanding of what changes
technology caused during the Industrial Revolution, to 1)understand what
that meant for how society worked then, 2) how that led to how we go
about life today, and 3) decide if there are still such life changing
technological changes happening today. (Put discussion goals on board)
I asked you to come up with some questions about the Industrial
Revolution and bring them in. Let’s get a few on the board, how about
five. (Call on students and write their questions on the board)
Now I have some questions I’d like you to consider while discussing.
(Write my questions on board)
Student questions( to be written on board as students share them)
My questions:
- People went from living on farms in the countryside to living in cities,
went from working farms to working in city factories, from riding horses
to driving cars, riding in trains and steam boats, went from making their
own necessities to buying premade products.
What affect do you think that had on family life?
- Did the changes in ways of life last? Do we still use technologies that
the old ways changed to? (Telephones, cars, trains, premade
products…)Do people still make their own clothes and grow their own
food? Where? Why? Do you?
- What ways of life are different for us than for our grandparents? (cell
phones, cd’s, gps,…)
- What would you invent to make our lives better? Why? How would
your invention change our way of life?
Before we begin our discussion, let’s be clear on what a good discussion
looks like. Who can tell me about how we behave during a discussion?
(Call on students to get at previously set basic rules of taking turns; using
hand signals to note agreement without words; making sure to orient to
speaker and listen; that students will be asked to explain their thinking and
restate what they understand about each other’s thinking or orient to their
classmates, and not pass judgment- disagreement is ok.)
Remember to take notes while we discuss, so you have a notes to refer to
when you write up the discussion.
Students will choose a starting point from either student generated
questions, or my questions, all on the board.
(My goal as teacher is to let students do the discussing. I will facilitate, and
ask further questions if need be to keep discussion going, clarify points,
make sure that all voices get heard, redirect discussion to stay on topic,
and remind students to interact with one another.)
Ok, we are almost out of time for discussing. Can I have 3 students who
have not shared much summarize in your own words, what we’ve talked
about today, and a conclusion we have reached or a controversy we have
about the discussion topic. (Choose 3 students and give them speaking
order.)
Before you leave, fill out this exit slip and hand it to me on your way out of class.
What ways of life are different for us than for people after the Civil War?
What technologies do you and your family use today that were introduced
during the Industrial Revolution?
Why do you think it’s important to recognize how things changed and if
those changes lasted?
Are there other things you know about that have not changed much over a
long time?
Are similar changes in technology affecting our way of life today?
ASSESSMENT RUBRIC FOR DISCUSSION
In what
ways did
ways of life
change
after the
Civil War?
Beginnin
g
1
specific
example
of how
lives
change
d after
the Civil
War.
Approaching Meeting
2 specific
examples of
lived and
worked
changes(fro
m farms to
cities,
worked on
farms to
worked in
factories)
3 specific
examples of
lived and
worked
changes(from
farms to cities,
worked on
farms to
worked in
factories AND
made their
own things to
buying
premade
products)
Exceeding
More than the
three
examples
from farms to
cities, worked
on farms to
worked in
factories AND
made their
own things to
buying
premade
products and
transportation
from horse
and carriage
to cars,
trains, steam
boats,working
in factories,
traveling
Do the
Answer
changes in yes
ways of life
last? Do we
still use
technologie
s that the
old ways
changed
to?
Do we
experience
changes in
our way of
life due to
technology
today ?
What are
they?
Answer
yes
farther from
home)
Yes, and
Yes, and two
Yes, and
one example examples of
three or more
of what
what change
examples of
change from from the
what change
the Industrial Industrial
from the
Revolution
Revolution we Industrial
we still
still
Revolution
use(phones) use(phones,
we still
cars)
use(phones,
cars, trains)
Yes and one
example of
technologica
l change
affecting
current ways
of life( cell
phones
instead of
land lines)
Yes and two
examples of
technological
change
affecting
current ways
of life( cell
phones
instead of land
lines,
computers
and working
from
home/remotel
y)
Question
Level of Bloom's
What affect did the
technological
changes that
occurred after the
Civil War have on
Analyze
Yes and one
example of
technological
change
affecting
current ways
of life( cell
phones
instead of
land lines,
computers
and working
from
home/remotel
y and
frequent
travel by
airplanes)
Purpose for
asking/how it is
related to objective
Can student use
information to draw
conclusions.
family life?
Did the changes in
Applying
ways of life last? Do
we still use
technologies that the
old ways changed to?
Examples?
Can student use
information and
connect it to their life?
/ Understanding
importance of event
in relation to own life.
What ways of life are Analyze
different for us than
for our grandparents?
Examples?
Can student use
information and
connect it to their life?
/ Understanding
importance of event
in relation to own life.
Identifying how
questions help
connect importance
to events.
Can student use
information and
connect it to their life?
/ Understanding
importance of event
in relation to own life.
Identifying how
questions help
connect importance
to events, and use
that knowledge.
What would you
invent to make our
lives better? Why
What way(s) do you
think that invention
would c
Creating
EXIT SLIP
What ways of life are different for us than for people after the Civil War?
What technologies do you and your family use today that were introduced
during the industrial revolution?
Why do you think it’s important to recognize how things changed and if
those changes lasted?
Are there other things you know about that have not changed much over a
long time?
Are similar changes in technology affecting our way of life today?
How did you learn these things, what helped you understand?