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**LESSON 3 **

** __Grade Level:__ ** 3rd Grade Social Studies

**__Unit:__** The Foundations of America

__**Lesson Objectives:**__
 * Students will understand the reasons why colonists came to America
 *  Students will know the names, regions, and facts of the thirteen colonies and will be able to identify the colonies and regions on a map
 *  Students will know about important historical people and events during colonization using a working time line
 * Students will understand about the conflict between and the points of view of the colonists and the Native Americans.
 *  Students will learn related vocabulary words that they will be able to put into context and spell correctly

**__Time Required To Complete This Lesson:__** One week

**__Title Of Lesson:__** Settling on America

**__Description Of Lesson:__** Students will learn about the years of colonization leading up to the American revolutionary War and the important people and events during the time. We will read about it in chapter 3 of our social studies book, perform the musical play //13 Colonies//, and use educational technology to build a time line of important events and form teams to compete in //Colonial Jeopardy// to prepare for a quiz!

__**In-class Assignment:**__
 * We will read and outline chapter 3 of our social studies book on The Foundations of America
 *  We will work on individually and collectively on interactive, online time lines at classtools.net to specify the major events during this time period
 *  We will fill-in our maps of the thirteen colonies
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> We will perform "13 Colonies," a musical play about early American history
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> We will work together in teams of 5 to compete in "Colonial Jeopardy" at jeopardylabs.com to study for our quiz
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> We will debate the issues and conflicts surrounding the colonists and Native Americans using facts that students researched from directed internet websites

<span style="color: #fb680e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__**Homework Assignment:**__
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">None, except study for Jeopardy!

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Resources/materials Needed: **__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> ** __The Technology We Used:__ ** We are using an online time line application from classtools.net in order for every student to keep track of the important events of the time period. We are also using classtools.net to provide us with a random team name generator for //Colonial Jeopardy//, which I will create and students will use in class from jeopardylabs.com
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Textbook, Chapter 3
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Map puzzles
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Costumes and scripts for play
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">www.jeopardylabs.com (Colonial Jeopardy), www.classtools.net (living time line & random team name generator for //Colonial Jeopardy//), & @http://www.teacheroz.com/colonies.htm (facts for debate)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Jeopardy theme mp3
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Debate issue sheets
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Laptop & AV setup

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**The Technology We Used In This Lesson Changes The Teaching/Learning In This Way:** __ By using technology in this lesson, students are able to work individually but collaborate their efforts by continually adding to a living time line for every event we cover during the year. If we were to use individual paper time lines, we wouldn't have a living, working document with all students contributing. And a time line makes it much more fun, and hopefully easier, to learn dates! By using the internet as a resource tool to gather facts for our debate, students are learning valuable searching, reading, and comprehension tools all in one exercise in a real world setting. We are also saving time so we are able to do an extra exercise in class and not have to have history homework this week. By using an online, interactive version of Jeopardy using facts about the colonies, I was able to ask the same questions that will be on our quiz in a fun interactive, TEAM environment promoting collaboration, peer tutoring, and fun competition in a familiar fun, visual, interactive setting that I simply couldn't do by just reading questions and having them answer. With the use of this visual aid, students are more likely to participate and remember what they learn from what can be tedious subject matter at times. And by using an online random team name generator to decide who's turn it is in our exercise, students are learning a new tool that promotes fairness. It also creates excitement and visual stimulation you don't get from pulling pieces of paper out of a hat or just taking turns. ** It's Time To Play.... <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: right;">Here is an example of our working time line for Virginia! <span style="color: #fb680e; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> media type="custom" key="5539189" align="right" **


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 108%; text-align: left;">Click here to try out our random team name generator for Jeopardy! **