BEYOND-THE-BASIC

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
Name: Greer Ferguson
Grade Level: 4th Grade
Content Area: Social Studies Revolutionary War
Beyond-the-Basic Productivity Tool Used: Timeline by Read-Write-Think
URL http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/
Standards Addressed: SS4H4 The student will explain the causes, events, and results of the
American Revolution

Blooms Level of Critical Thinking:
Remembering

Understanding

Applying

Analyzing

Evaluating

Creating

Description of how to implement in the class:

Students will engage in a ten day study of the Revolutionary war. To culminate the unit
study of the revolutionary war, students will pick eight events of their choosing that they
think were the most important or impactful. Students will be required to include both the
event and date in the timeline. Students will also write a paragraph of each event explaining
why, in their opinion, this specific event was especially impactful to the revolutionary war.
Students will present their timeline and share their reasoning on why they pick specific
events that they wrote about.

The purpose is to have students be able to defend their choices in events from the
knowledge (facts) they learned about the events of revolutionary war. This beyond-the-basic
productivity tool will aid in helping them engaging in higher order learning, and also be a
valuable tool to aid them in their presentations.
Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): LoTi 4 because the student will creating and given
choices in their creation, however they will only be sharing with their classmates, making it a level 4
activity.
Description of the sample BBPT file provided *: In the BBPT file you will see a sample timeline of
8 events a students could possible choose of important revolutionary war events.