Collaborative Learning: Entry Level

(K-4 Lesson)

Places People Lived: Houses Then and Now
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Grade Level
1
Classroom Configuration
  • Whole group instruction, using a projector and / or interactive white board Arizona State Content Standards
Arizona State Content Standards
  • Social Studies
    • Strand 1: American History
      • Concept 1: Research Skills for History
        • PO 3: Use primary source materials (e.g., photos, artifacts and maps) to study people and events from the past.
    • Strand 4: Geography
      • Concept 4: Human Systems
        • PO 1: Discuss elements of a culture (food, clothing, housing, sports, holidays) of a community in area studied (e.g., Arizona, Egypt, local community).
  • Reading
    • Strand 2: Comprehending Literary Text
      • Concept 2: Historical and Cultural Aspects of Literature
        • PO 1: Compare events, characters and conflicts in literary selections from a variety of cultures, to their experiences.
  • Language Arts
    • Standard 4: Viewing and Presenting
      • VP-F3. Access, view and respond to visual forms such as computer programs, videos, artifacts, drawings, pictures and collages
Arizona Educational Technology Standards (2009)
  • Strand 3: Research and Information Literacy
    • Concept 1: Knowledge and Ideas
      • PO 1: Evaluate information to generate ideas
    • Concept 2: Processing
      • PO 2: Use pre-selected sources.
Objectives
  • View primary source photos to study places from the past.
  • Evaluate visual information to generate new ideas about places people have lived.
  • Identify where and when American settlers lived.
  • Compare living in a sod house with life in a typical home today.
Procedure
  1. Show video segment from Discovery Streaming: Different Kinds of Shelter. Use this to help students visualize each type of home and talk about some of the reasons for their differences.
  2. Show video segment, with primary source photos, from Discovery Streaming: Places: Learning How Houses Have Changed Over Time, and photographs from the Library of Congress (American Memory section) to compare houses of the past with houses today.
  3. Guide students through an analysis of these primary source documents of pioneer life by focusing on one or two images in a class discussion.
Materials
  • Computers
  • Internet
  • Projector
  • Speakers
  • Discovery Streaming available through IDEAL
  • paper and pencil
Assessment
  • Students will draw a picture showing two types of houses they learned about.
TIM - Collaborative: Entry
Northern Arizona University