Objectives: Students will use their textbooks and information they found online to compare the similarities of the Great Depression and Recession. Students will how and relate how the historical events are similar. How it affected the economy, employment, and society.
Common Core Standards http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf.
RH Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies 6-12
6. Compare the point of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics, including which details they include and emphasize in their respective accounts. 9. Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
WHST Writing standards for literacy in History/Social studies, science, and Technology subjects.
2. Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/experiments, or technical processes.
6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technologys capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
2. Communication and collaboration b. Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats.
3. Research and information fluency b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media
Materials needed for this lesson iPads app pages History textbook Articles from the beginning of class. Documents they found online the day before Teachers email ms.cruz@gmail.com
Teacher preparation/Instruction Students activities/ assignments Step 1: Teacher will instruct one person from each group to get the iPads for their group. Teacher will than instruct them to open the app pages.
Step 2: Teacher will instruct them to look at the four documents they found on the Recession and their articles provided by the teacher on the first day of class. If they do not have the articles with them they can assess them from their emails. Step 1: Students will send one person from their group to get the iPads for their groups. They will on their app pages.
Step 2: Students will open the four documents and app pages.
Step 3: Students will discuss the similarities of the Great Depression and Recession. They will compare both events using the documents they found, articles and history textbooks.
Step 3: Teacher will instruct groups to find the similarities between unemployment, economies and Society.
Step 4: Teacher will instruct students to make an individual T- chart on their pages app. They will list the similarities and evidence to back them up. a. The teacher will meet with all the groups and assess on their progress.
Step 5: Teacher will instruct students to share their finding with their group. They will than chose one person in their group to create a T- chart and they will all decide what will be on the chart of similarities.
Step 6: Teacher will instruct the students to send their group T-charts and individual T-chart to the classroom email.
Step 4: Students will create a individual T-chart on their pages app. They will list the similarities. One side will be the Great Depression and the other side will be the recession.
Step 6: Students will send their individual T-chart and group T-chart to the teachers classroom email.