2010+Revolutionary+War

=Fifth Grade Unit 4: Revolutionary War (Making a New Nation)=

//What relevant goals (e.g. content standards, course or program objectives, learning outcomes) will this design address?// What are the ideas and events that led to the creation of the United States? || //Students will understand that. . .// • //What are the big ideas?// - inalienable rights - representative democracy - national identity //• What specific understandings about them are desired?// - How these ideas created the United States both as an idea and a reality. //• What misunderstandings are predictable?// - rights are given, or can be taken away, and given back - the U.S. has direct democracy - the British would not settle with Americans || ===Essential Questions:=== //**•** What provocative questions will foster inquiry, understanding, and transfer of learning?// - Could there have been another ending to this conflict? - Why not choose a monarchy? - If all men are created equal with rights that can't be taken away, how did they have slavery and indentured servitude, and what about women? || • //What background knowledge and skills will students need to have or be brought up to speed on and how will this be done?// - Basic knowledge of the colonial period including the French Indian War - Where England/Britain is vs. the United States - The idea of colonization || //• What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?// - The parts of a successful multimedia presentation (planning, text/voice over, and image selection) - Discerning a main idea. //• What should they eventually be able to so as a result of such knowledge and skills?// - A multimedia presentation - Explaining the big ideas of this period || ====//Students will be able to know. . .//==== //• Through what authentic performance tasks will students demonstrate the desired understandings?// Multimedia presentation about three key events in the Revolutionary War • //By what criteria will performances of understanding be judged?// || ===Other Evidence:=== • Through what other evidence (e.g. quizzes, tests, academic prompts, observations, homework, journals) will students demonstrate achievement of the desired results? • How will students reflect upon and self-assess their learning? || What learning experiences and instruction will enable students to achiever the desired results? How will the design
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