BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS, WORD TEMPLATE, NARRATED POWERPOINT

Name: Gabe Brown

Grade Level: 11th grade
Content Area: U.S. History – Progressive Era
Basic Productivity Tool Used: Sway
Standards Addressed: SSUSH13 Evaluate efforts to reform American society and politics in
the Progressive Era.

a. Describe the influence of muckrakers on affecting change by bringing attention to social

problems.
b. Examine and explain the roles of women in reform movements.
c. Connect the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson to the expansion of Jim Crow laws and the formation
of the NAACP.
d. Describe Progressive legislative actions including empowerment of the voter, labor laws, and
the conservation movement.

Bloom’s Level of Critical Thinking:

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Description of how to implement in the class:
As a warm-up for the class and a review of past lessons, the teacher should facilitate a class
discussion asking questions about the different movements during the Progressive Era (Temperance,
Women’s Suffrage, Labor Laws/Conditions, and the Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement). After
about 5 minutes the teacher should shift the conversation of the discussion to how those movements
reflect our society today. How would we handle those problems now? Are we still dealing with those
issues? How are we handling it now? Do we reflect any person’s ideology? Did one person’s ideology
not work? How do we move forward?
After the class discussion, the teacher should instruct students to come to the front of the class
and get a computer and an activity sheet/rubric. When students return to their seats, they should log
in and wait for their teacher’s instructions. The teacher will use the SmartBoard to show students
how to create a Sway (there is a tutorial available on the Office 365 site that should be shown first).
Go over the assignment with the students. Students will create a Sway over one of the movements
during the Progressive Era: Women’s Suffrage, Temperance, Labor Laws/Conditions, and the
Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. The students should include an overview of the need for the
movement (what is happening?), two or three important leaders of the movement (Who and how
they plan on fixing the problem?), and finally, students should discuss how the movement relates to
society today (Are we still dealing with this issue? How can we fix it today? Should we follow any
leader’s advice from the Progressive Era? How do we move forward?)

Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): This lesson registers on both level 3 and 4. The lesson
is mainly student-centered, but there are teacher-centered aspects of the lesson. The lesson
implements higher order thinking skills (understanding, evaluating, and creating). The lesson focuses
on content while also applying and evaluating this content for real life use and application. Learning
is relevant by highlighting, discussing, and evaluating the social problems students see in everyday
life that reflect the Progressive Era Movements.
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Description of the sample spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *: Students will see an
example of a Sway like the one they should complete. The Sway includes a set-up of what is
happening during the time, two or three important figures in the movement and their stance and
importance to the movement, and finally an evaluation of how (or if) the important figures’ beliefs
can benefit problems in our society today. The example Sway includes several features that students
should include in their own Sway (images, videos, slide shows, imported PowerPoint, stacks, etc.).

Other comments about your proposed spreadsheet/graph/chart activity: The example Sway
was built by the teacher (me). If students choose to write about the Civil Rights Movement they must
include at least one other important figure other than Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois. They
should use their own layout design and include new pictures, videos, quotes, etc. that make it their
own.