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A Step Though Time

This lesson plan involves students learning about Native American history and creating timelines of their own family histories over four days. On day one, students will learn how to create timelines on Dipity.com and input information about their ancestors. On day two, students will present their timelines and learn how communication and transportation have changed from Native American times to present. Day three focuses on Native American contributions to US heritage. On the final day, students may present on tribes in their family histories. Assessments include a pre-assessment discussion, students presenting their timelines, and a two-page essay about a Native American tribe.

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A Step Though Time

This lesson plan involves students learning about Native American history and creating timelines of their own family histories over four days. On day one, students will learn how to create timelines on Dipity.com and input information about their ancestors. On day two, students will present their timelines and learn how communication and transportation have changed from Native American times to present. Day three focuses on Native American contributions to US heritage. On the final day, students may present on tribes in their family histories. Assessments include a pre-assessment discussion, students presenting their timelines, and a two-page essay about a Native American tribe.

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A Step Through Time

Kannella Hill
2 Grade History
nd

Common Core Standards:


Place events into chronological order on a timeline
Recognize that the actions of individuals make a difference, and relate the stories of people from diverse
backgrounds who have contributed to the heritage of the united states.
Identify and describe examples of how science and technology have changed the daily lives of people and
compare:
1. Forms of communication from the past to the present
2. Forms of transportation from the past to the present

Lesson Summary:
Students will be informed of the lesson two weeks before it begins so that they can get their family trees
together. They will need them for the first part of the lesson in which they will input their trees into
Dipity.com to learn about timelines. Each lesson they will use their timelines, either to see how to line the
events up on a timeline or to see the ancestors in their family.
Estimated Duration:
It will be about 240 minutes total broken into three hour long lessons and one forty minute introduction that
gives the students an overview of what they will be learning and time to work on their timelines.
Commentary: My approach will be to get their attention by involving hem in the lesson. The lesson discussing
individual tribes will be based on the tribes (if any are found) in the students ancestry. The students will
present their timelines to the class so they can discuss their heritage a bit.

Instructional Procedures:
Two weeks before the lessons begin I will introduce the idea of the lessons and send home a handout for the
parents to gather their information. It doesnt need to be a completely detailed family tree, the grandparents
line should be enough to go back to see if there are any Native American ancestors in their family tree. A
reminder will be sent out the week before the lessons begin, another reminder will be sent out just before the
lessons begin.

Day 1: Benchmark- Place items in correct order on a timeline.


First 20 minutes: Introduce the new unit. Explain about the Native American history (dont go into detail, just
an overview) and show them Dipity. Use an example timeline of my own ancestry to show them their
assignment. They should already have the information prepared to put into their time line.
Next 40 minutes: This time will be used to work on their timelines. They should have them and do their best to
put them in order on their own, but dipity will put in order automatically. This twenty minutes should be long
enough, if it is not then it can be their homework for the night.
They will need a computer for this lesson.

Day 2: Benchmark- Identify and describe examples of how science and technology have changed the daily
lives of people and compare:
1. Forms of communication from the past to present
2. Forms of transpiration from the past to present
First 30 minutes: Students will present their timelines, not all students, there will be another chance to present.
Next 30 minutes: Class discussion. The smart board will be used (along with a Prezi) to compare todays way
of life (communication and transpiration) to the Native American way of life.
They will use a Smart board and a computer.

Day 3: Benchmark- Recognize that the actions of individuals makes a difference, and relate the stories of
people from diverse backgrounds who have contributed to the heritage of the United States.
First 30 minutes: The rest of the students may present their timelines.
Next 10 minutes: Students race to find as many ways that they can find online that the Native Americans
contributed to the United States heritage.
Next 20 minutes: Class discussion on their findings.
They will need computers and a smart board

Day 4:
First 20 minutes: The students can present on the tribes from their ancestries. If they dont have any then well
just spend the entire hour long lesson learning about different tribes.

Pre-Assessment:
For a pre assessment we will hold a class discussion about Native Americans to see what they students know
about their ways of life. We will make a list of everything the students know about the Native Americans and
on the last day we will return to the list to see if everything they listed was correct or not.

Scoring Guidelines:
Scoring will be an automatic 10 points for participation. In order to receive the points they have to
contribute at list one item to the list of facts on Native Americans.
Post-Assessment:
The post assessment will be a written essay on any Native American tribe they choose. All facts used in the
essay will need to be sited properly. They will need at least 2 resources, one of which may be a web source the
other must be a hard copy resource (If it is a book then the eBook or kindle version will be acceptable) in order
to receive full credit. It will need to be two pages long and they will have one week after the last lesson to
complete their assignments. They will be informed of it during their introduction so they have a few extra days
to decide which tribe they would like to write about. They can write anything about the tribe that they want as
long as it can be confirmed by reliable sources.

Scoring Guidelines:
The whole assignment will be worth 50 points, this includes the 10 points from the pre-assessment,
20 points for completing and presenting it to the class, and 20 points for the paper. The paper will be 5
points for correctly siting their work, 5 points for using reliable resources, 5 points for meeting the 2
page minimum and correct spelling and grammer, and 5 points for typing it and turning it in on time.

Differentiated Instructional Support


By doing most of the work in class it should be fairly easy to pace it to meet the needs of the students. I have
a crossword puzzle for students to do if they work ahead and are finished before others, it can be a take home
study guide to practice their vocabulary words. If typing is a challenge to anyone I will accept a handwritten
paper as long as it is turned in on time and only by students who truly have a problem typing it. There will be
quiet time each day for students to work on their papers, this gives students who may not have a computer at
home time to do their assignment. If a student has problems with writing papers they may pair with a friend or
fellow student and collaborate on a paper, the only extra work I would as is an extra page.
Discuss additional activities you could do to meet the needs of students who might be struggling with the
material:

If anyone is struggling with the material I will have additional resource available for them to go through
and will have a few minutes discussion time at the end of each lesson for them to ask questions and talk over
everything.

Homework Options and Home Connections


Their post assessment will be their only homework assignment. They will write a two page essay on any
Native American tribe they choose. They can choose anything about that tribe to write about in their essay as
long as it is backed up by one of their two sources. One of their sources may be an internet and one of them
has to be an actual book from the library. If they want to, then they may both be books, but they need at least
one book.

Interdisciplinary Connections
This will work as a as a Technology lesson and an English lesson. The points for their timeline and internet
research will count towards their Technology class and their paper will count as one of their English papers for
the year.

Materials and Resources:

For teachers

Smart Board
Computer - internet

For students

Key Vocabulary
Heritage

Computer - internet

Timeline
Native American
Bands
Chief
Wampum
Powwows
Villages
Ancestor
Additional Notes
This should be a fun, lesson where they not only learn about Native Americans, but prepare to move into the
next unit when they learn about their own heritages. My family is Irish so during this point I would look at
Ireland and their traditions, the students would do it as well, but with their own heritages. Their next
assignment would be to learn about their heritages and write a paper about it as we study ancient world history
and how they all contributed to todays United States.

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