Danielle+Curran

[|A Review of American History - Lesson Plan]

This lesson plan's goal is to help students to understand the relationship between the past, present, and future. Other objectives for this lesson plan include helping students understand how events work in a [|timeline] and for them to be able to research historical events and be able to form their own timeline. This project could be done either individually or in a small group of 2-4 students.

The process of this lesson plan first consists of the students organizing certain important historical events into a timeline. This would consist of me giving them a list of certain events, which they would then need to research to determine the order. This lesson plan provides many different options that could be used as activities in addition to the creation of the timeline. My choice from these activities would be to have the students make a [|diorama] representing a historical event of their choice. I think that this would be a good way for them to be creative and it would make the project a lot more exciting than just a timeline.

To evaluate this project, I would create a rubric to show the students what they will be graded on. First, I would look at the accuracy of the dates on the timeline. I also think that neatness and organization is important when creating a timeline, so it is easy to read and follow. I would also look at their diorama to make sure that they have a fairly accurate representation of the event they chose. Under the History curriculum goal "interpret and reconstruct chronological relationships," this project would satisfy basically all of the Benchmark 2 (Grade 5) requirements.

__**Responses:**__

__Erin's Response:__ I think this is a great idea,creating a timeline is a perfect way to visually show students the chronological relationship of different events. This project is also vague enough to be adopted to anytime period and thus any grade level. You could do a timeline of an individual, of a war, of a country, etc. The diorama is also a great idea and gives a change to be creative and allows you to have a physical output in which to base your grading on. A project like this would be great for back to school night, or an event in which parents can see something that their child has created.

Michelle's Response: I think that this project is a great way to introduce the concept of the past, present, and future to students at the 5th grade level. Creating a timeline is one of the easiest ways to relay and understand historical events. Especially at this grade level, making this lesson a group project is a great idea because students can come together with information from different time periods and work with one another to make sure that the dates are in chronological order. The addition of the diorama project is also a great idea because it lets students have a little bit of creativity in this project, especially because there are not really many different/creative ways to design a timeline.

__Darryl's Response :__ This lesson plan is a great way to show history and the important events that go along with it. The timeline really shows student how to place the important events of history in chronological order. Understanding past, present, and future is huge in using this timeline. I really like the diorama project, especially for my class involving African American history. I would definitely use this project to show an important event in history. I also feel kids will be a lot more creative and be able to express their understanding of the subject at hand, better this way.