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Objective: MN, US History Standards 9.4.4.21.4explain the factors that lead the United States to choose a side for war. Skills Acquired Previously: Students have watched the following YouTube video describing how to annotate YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS_1gFURRQA Activate Prior Knowledge: Have students pay close attention to a short skit you perform. It will be silent. Then tell them to watch it the second time. Have students pause when they want to add an annotation to the skit. Students may write their annotations on the white board next to the teacher. Remind students of the variety of annotations they can use on YouTube and encourage them to be creative. Lesson Activities: 1. Introduce Animoto and have student login to the school account in order to create videos longer than thirty seconds. http://animoto.com/ 2. Students will create videos about German Expansion before WWII a. Form their research on German Expansion have them choose three pictures and one video. b. There should be no words or titles on their film. c. When complete upload the video to YouTube 3. Annotate the Animoto video in You Tube a. Add annotations that explain your pictures b. Follow the rubric on how to summarize events Closure: Have the students watch each video and evaluate how well the materials are presented. Assessment: Watch each video and grade based on a rubric. Also pay close attention to what annotations students are making and ask questions to help them reflect on German Expansion.
Title of Lesson: Comparing the American Revolution to the Arab Spring in Wikispaces
Objective: MN, US History Standards 9.4.4.17.2 Analyze the American revolutionaries justifications, principles and ideals as expressed in the Declaration of Independence; identify the sources of the principles and ideals and their impact on subsequent revolutions in Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Skills Acquired Previously: Comparison skills have been taught in previous lessons. Students should be familiar with Wikispaces before the project. Activate Prior Knowledge: Help students understand what justification means. Give students scenarios that require a decision to be made. Then poll them using Poll Everywhere Discuss whether their choices could be justified. http://www.polleverywhere.com/ Lesson Activities: 1. Students will start by defining the American Revolution and the Arab Spring. a. Record these definitions as Wikispaces pages (one each). i. http://www.wikispaces.com/ b. Each Definition should have two supporting pictures. 2. Compare the two uprisings a. On a separate wiki page, discuss the similarities and differences i. Link this pages to the other two pages ii. Include at least two pictures on this pages as well iii. Hyperlink to your sources by connecting them to important ideas in the body of your pages. Closure: Have students work in pairs to describe the similarities and differences. One student should speak only of similarities and the other only of differences. Assessment: Circulate as students are making their wikis. Ask clarifying questions and record at least ten student responses as an audio file on your iPad.