Depression Impact
Name: Johnathan Thacker | Date: 11/04/10 |
Lesson Title: The Great Depression impacts society | Grade/Level:12 |
· Era 8 Standard 1.0 Culture: Understand the effect of the Great Depression upon American society.
· Era 8 Standard 2.0 Economics: Understand the economic climate in the United States during the Depression Era. Understand how World War II affected the American economy. | |
· 8.8 Analyze how World War II affected the American economy (i.e., women in the workforce, movement to urban centers, minority employment, rationing,). | |
· Standard 6.0 Individuals and Group Interactions: 8.1: Explain the effect of poverty on people's lives by examining multiple perspectives. Give general political responses to economic calamity. | |
TN State Computer Technology Learning Accomplishments: http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/computer/index.shtml
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Essential Question: Exactly how much did things change in the United States because of the Great Depression and World War II? | |
Concept Map Integration Plan: The concept map used will be organizational, but the ones students themselves will make will be brainstorming. | |
Brief description of the Instruction Plan: This will be used near the end of a unit covering this time period, as sort of a summary tool. After a brief review, I will go over the accompanying concept map with students, to once again show the connected nature of these events. Afterward, students will be asked to select one of these events and create a brainstorming concept map to show other events connected to it, and be able to link it back to at least one other event on the original map (aside from one it is already connected to), although the linkage does not have to be direct. | |
Additional Technology Integration to be Used: Aside from the technology used in constructing and presenting the PowerPoint, students will also use classroom computers to make PowerPoint’s of their own. Some related video footage on this lesson will also be shown beforehand, utilizing an overhead projector. | |
Description of the ‘relative advantage’ of all technology being used in this lesson: By making their concepts in a digital format, students would have the capacity to utilize pictures as representations to more vividly display their ideas. They would also be able to make any changes much easier, as opposed to having to re-do all of the other areas because of a mistake in one, or being stuck with excessive eraser smudge. By allowing students greater potential to make these visually stimulating, it raises the accompanying potential of making these ideas stick with them more, due to more captivating visuals representing the information as it makes the transition in their minds from an abstract into a visual. | |
