Beacon Lesson Plan Library
Through the Years (Social Studies)
Kaye Maddox
Bay District Schools
Description
Through the Years gives the student an opportunity to write his or her own autobiography using a multimedia format on the computer.
Standards
Florida Sunshine State Standards
SS.A.1.2.3
The student understands broad categories of time in years, decades, and centuries.
Florida Process Standards
Information Managers
01 Florida students locate, comprehend, interpret, evaluate, maintain, and apply information, concepts, and ideas found in literature, the arts, symbols, recordings, video and other graphic displays, and computer files in order to perform tasks and/or for enjoyment.
Effective Communicators
02 Florida students communicate in English and other languages using information, concepts, prose, symbols, reports, audio and video recordings, speeches, graphic displays, and computer-based programs.
Critical and Creative Thinkers
04 Florida students use creative thinking skills to generate new ideas, make the best decision, recognize and solve problems through reasoning, interpret symbolic data, and develop efficient techniques for lifelong learning.
Systems Managers
07 Florida students integrate their knowledge and understanding of how social, organizational, informational, and technological systems work with their abilities to analyze trends, design and improve systems, and use and maintain appropriate technology.
NETS for Students
3.1
Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
3.2
Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.
Materials
- Computers with CD-ROM and Internet access
- Presentation software such as the Bookbuilder or Power Point programs
- Scanner
- Pennies for the years the students have lived
- Pictures of students for each year of life
- Color printer
- Mathis, Sharon Bell.The Hundred Penny Box
Preparations
1. Become familiar with programs such as PowerPoint and Book Builder.
2. Know how to scan pictures.
3. Obtain copy of The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis.
4. Become familiar with the book.
5. Obtain pennies for the different years of students' lives.
6. Prepare note to send home so parents will have time to search out pictures. Assure parents that they will not be destroyed.
7. Set up computer stations with correct programs loaded and ready to use.
Procedures
1. After several weeks of working with the Bay County History CD and presentation software such as the Bookbuilder Program included with that CD, or the Power Point program, the students will then be ready to build a book about their own lives.
2. Read The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis.
3. After reading the book, students find pennies dated each year they have lived.
4. Each student makes his or her own hundred-penny box.
5. The students use the Internet and search for special events that have happened during each of the years they have lived.
6. Share these events with the class and make a list for the students to choose from as they do their own books using programs such as Bookbuilder or PowerPoint.
7. After this research has been completed, the students bring in pictures of themselves for each of these years.
8. Scan these pictures into the program that they have chosen.
9. After each student finishes scanning his or her pictures they will be able to develop the book using programs such as Bookbuilder or PowerPoint.
10. Each student writes the event they chose for the year and put the penny in the book with that event. (Pennies can be glued.)
11. The students write about their own pictures for each year.
12. Students present these to the class and maintain copies to take home.
13. This is a long process and requires parental help if working with younger students.
Assessments
Make student and teacher assessment at the presentation of the book with the rubric to be created with the class prior to the beginning of the project.
Circulate and formatively assess students as they use the technology tools. Provide assistance for students who are experiencing difficulty and monitor accordingly.
Web Links
Web supplement for Through the Years Bay County History CD-ROM
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