Teacher(s) Name: Ms. Braun
School: Deep Run HS
Grade Level(s): Grade 11
Content Area(s): US History
Lesson Summary
In Ms. Braun’s honors level Virginia and US History course, students are tasked with educating their peers on an important Civil Rights movement of the 50’s, 60’s, or 70’s by creating a digital breakout. As a group, students start by discussing what exactly they want their peers to learn about their movement. They then create a Google site, embed a google form, and then as a team, create digital clues to teach their peers about their movement. They are required to show thorough background information on their topic and to create 6 unique clues using a different media for each clue.
At the final class period, students are required to complete their classmates’ breakouts as a group and collaborate to solve the clues. Students also rate their peers’ Breakouts. The teams that rate the highest in creativity, informative, and challenge receive extra credit on their project. Students also rate their group mates on how much they contributed and collaborated on the project and how they could have made their project better after seeing their peers’ projects.
TIPC Ratings
Research & Information Fluency
Rating:Ideal – Explanation: Students are required to educate their peers on an important civil rights movement of the 60’s through the use of digital tools and puzzles. In teams, students research their self-chosen topic, decide what information is most important, decide on relevant sources to use and decide which puzzles to use.
Communication & Collaboration
Rating: Approaching – Explanation: Students are presented with a challenging task that asks them to work collaboratively in order to complete. Students reflect on their role in the group as well as their peers. Additionally, students choose appropriate media to display information to classmates. Students are required to reflect on their product and their peers’ products. Students are required to evaluate and self reflect on how much they collaborated on the product.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: Students create their own authentic Digital breakout where they have choose significant information, generate questions, create clues, and choose appropriate media to teach this information to their peers through technology. The goal of this authentic task is to teach their peers about their topic. They are responsible for choosing significant information, and selecting appropriate media. They create clues that generate critical thinking for their peers.
Creativity & Innovation
Rating: Ideal – Explanation: Students are tasked with creating a digital scavenger hunt, finding their own research, creating a platform to share information, creating their own unique clues to create critical thinking situations for their peers, and reflect on how they can improve their project compared to their peers.
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