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Day 2 of 2
Teaching Topics

Impact on Minorities of Westward Expansion

Method of instruction – Small Groups

Essential Question: How did Westward Expansion impact Women, Native Americans, Immigrants, and Black People?

Learning Targets

Students will compare and contrast the intent of Westward Expansion with the impact it had on various identity groups.

Formative Assessments
EdPuzzle Vidoes
Small in class Presentations

Summative Assessment

Backpack Connection
Effective Communicator

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Teaching Topics

A Nation of Immigrants

Method of instruction – Preview of Next Project Overview
Gamification/Gimkit

Learning Targets

Students will finish up Checkpoints 1-3.

Students will participate in a live gamified review of PFA3 questions.

Students will begin working on a script for the Immigration Myths video (project option 1), or on their one pager (project option 2).

Students will analyze data from the survey for their project.

Summative Assessment

Backpack Connection
Globally and Culturally Competent Citizen.

Resources

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Teaching Topics

Westward Expansion

Method of instruction – Game Based

Essential Question: How can I create a historically accurate Bloxels video game about Westward Expansion and represent various minorities in the game.

Learning Targets

Students will create bloxels accounts and play games from the student arcade.

Students will make observations about the game mechanics and history working together to tell an accurate story.

Students will create a Bloxels video game that represents Westward Expansion.

Students will visualize each marginalized group impacted by westward expansion as a sprite and write talking points for their character.

Summative Assessment
Bloxels Video GAME

Backpack Connection
Productive Collaborator

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Teaching Topics

Immigration Policy

Method of instruction – Writing Critically

Essential Questions:

What factors have shaped US immigration policy arguments over time?

How has the US immigration system changed over time?

How has US immigration policy been criticized over time?

Learning Targets
Cog Skill targets:

Students will research immigration policies and government/presidential administrations actions to change that policy.

Students will infer what contributes to policy change and explain why.

Content Targets:
Students will understand:

Immigration policy changes to reflect the sentiments and fears of a given time.

The dialogue around immigration is impacted by access to different perspectives and sources.

Understanding historical perspectives and criticisms of immigration policy can help us better understand today’s approach to immigration policy.

Summative Assessment
One pager of data Analysis

Backpack Connection
Globally and Culturally Competent Citizen

Resources

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Teaching Topics

Immmigration

Method of instruction – Data Analysis

Learning Targets

Students will analyze results from the survey and begin creating a visual representation of data.

Students will infer what the attitude towards immigration policies based on data collected.

SUMMATIVE Assessment
Presentation on Immigration

Formative

Backpack Connection
Effective Communicator

Resources

Key terms
1.The Market Revolution 2.The Transportation Revolution 3.Steamboats 4.Erie Canal 5.Railroads 6.Corporations 7.Interchangeable parts 8.Mass production 9.Lowell System 10.Lowell Mill Girls 11. Women’s Sphere 12.Nativism 13.Know-Nothings 14.Irish Immigration 15.Abolitionist 16. Frederick Douglass 17.William Lloyd Garrison 18.David Walker 19.Slave Narratives

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Teaching Topics
Vocabulary/Hexagonal Thinking

Method of instruction – Individual/HexagonalThinking

Essential Question: How did expansion efforts lead to the changing boundaries of the US? How did intention differ from impact?

Learning Targets

Students will visualize their vocabulary words by creating a google slide deck with images and descriptions.

Students will use hexagonal thinking to group and connect terms of relational value.

Formative Assessment

Vocab and Hexagonal Thinking Slide Deck

Backpack Connection
Effective Communicator

Key terms

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(Jumping ahead to Checkpoint 5 to generate a data collection survey)

Teaching Topics

Attitudes towards Immigration

Method of instruction – Group Construction of Artifact
Learning Targets

Students will create a list of survey questions to generate data for analysis using google forms. This will assess the information in the “Survey Question Review” table.

Students will evaluate the questions that are curated and vote on which questions to add in the survey.

Summative Assessment

Backpack Connection
Globally and Culturally Competent Citizen

Resources
Survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSenaGlxWy62vFpEpMetVp0h4seVEfjNcuAWDMXQlrtU4kSYww/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Day 1 of 2
Teaching Topics

Impact on Minorities of Westward Expansion

Method of instruction – Small Groups

Essential Question: How did Westward Expansion impact Women, Native Americans, Immigrants, and Black People?

Learning Targets

Students will compare and contrast the intent of Westward Expansion with the impact it had on various identity groups.

Formative Assessments
EdPuzzle Vidoes
Small in class Presentations

Summative Assessment

Backpack Connection
Effective Communicator

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SDL Day

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Teaching Topics
Western Expansion

Method of instruction – Game designs

Essential Question: How did expansion efforts impact the marginalized groups of black people, women, immigrants, and Native Americans? How can I design a video game that teaches the impact of Westward expansion?

Learning Targets

Students will create a pixel character of their marginalized group using graph paper and pencils.

Students will translate their pixel art in bloxels edu.

Formative Assessment

Backpack Connection
Effective Communicator

Key terms
1.Manifest Destiny
2. Westward Expansion