This document provides details for a 5th grade history lesson that uses a narrated PowerPoint to create a timeline of the Civil Rights Movement. Students will address standards about key people and events from 1950-1975 and apply different levels of critical thinking. The PowerPoint should have dates or year ranges on each slide along with titles and images to chronicle important figures and events, with narration elaborating on the visual information.
This document provides details for a 5th grade history lesson that uses a narrated PowerPoint to create a timeline of the Civil Rights Movement. Students will address standards about key people and events from 1950-1975 and apply different levels of critical thinking. The PowerPoint should have dates or year ranges on each slide along with titles and images to chronicle important figures and events, with narration elaborating on the visual information.
This document provides details for a 5th grade history lesson that uses a narrated PowerPoint to create a timeline of the Civil Rights Movement. Students will address standards about key people and events from 1950-1975 and apply different levels of critical thinking. The PowerPoint should have dates or year ranges on each slide along with titles and images to chronicle important figures and events, with narration elaborating on the visual information.
Standards Addressed: SS5H8 The student will describe the importance
of key people, events, and developments between 1950-1975 Blooms Level of Critical Thinking: Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating Description of how to implement in the class: The student will create a timeline that illustrates the progress of the Civil Rights Movement. The goal is to create a narrated PowerPoint that is chronologically sound and factually accurate. Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): LoTi level 1 and LoTi level 3 are explored in this project. The student will first become aware of new knowledge, then they will infuse the knowledge with technology concepts to make the PowerPoint express the knowledge they have just acquired. Description of the sample spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *: The Powerpoint should have the year or time range of years at the top of every slide. There should also be a title for important figures and events. At least half of the slides should contain pictures. The narration should elaborate on the information on the slide but not read directly from the slides. Other comments about your proposed spreadsheet/graph/chart activity: This lesson is original but will use borrowed material. Students will not need to create full citations but instead post the link where they obtained the material.