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Lesson Idea Name: The Events of September 11th

Content Area: Social Studies
Grade Level(s): 5th
Content Standard Addressed:
SS5H7: Trace important developments in America from 1975 to 2001
b. Describe the events of September 11th, 2001, and analyze their impact on American life
Technology Standard Addressed:
ISTE-Standard 3: Knowledge Conductor

Selected Technology Tool:

☒ Movie (list application):
☐ Audio (list application):
☐ Other (list application):
URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/ (Day 1: Instructional technology)
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/september11th/ (Day 2: Review of Material/Introduction)
Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):
☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☒ Evaluating ☒ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level): (Select the best level)

☐ Level 1: Awareness ☐ Level 2: Exploration ☐ Level 3: Infusion ☒ Level 4: Integration
☐ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

I could address Universal Design for Learning principles to extend and support the learning
experiences for all students by implementing Ginger Software and providing students with a Big Key Keyboard
or portable keyboard. The Ginger Software is phenomenal instructional tool that helps students revise/edit
their papers by giving comments/advice on each student written work. In fact, this assistive technology could
provide students with a cognitive or learning disability that can catch any grammatical and syntactic mistakes.
Additionally, Ginger Software can translate their work from Spanish to English and provides a dictionary for
students to use to look up vocabulary that is unfamiliar to them. Furthermore, I would provide students with
Big Key Keyboards, if needed. This assistive technology is a great tool for students that struggle seeing and
typing on regular keyboards, so they can focus on writing their paper and stop struggling or worrying about
being able to type their papers.

Lesson idea implementation:

“The Events of September 11th, 2001,” lesson idea will call the students to research the events that
happened on September 11th, then create a timeline of these events using Timeliner on ReadWriteThink.org
on day one. Meanwhile, the teacher will have the students watch an iMovie about September 11th, then the
teacher will write and have the students discuss what they know about September 11th, what they want to
know about September 11th, and (later) what they have learned about September [KWL Chart on Anchor
Paper] on day one. On the second day, the students will watch a video about September 11 th (as a hook) on
BrainPOP and fill out a vocabulary graphic organizer. After the video, the students will write a letter to their
hero about why they admire them and how their hero is connected to their definition of a hero. The timeline
will be assessed by collecting the completed timeline and identifying if the student identified all the main
events that happened on September 11th. The letter will be assessed by a rubric that has different

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components, such as organization, conventions, content/ideas, and details, that the student must met to
make a four (range will be one to four).
The final products will be used to inform/differentiate learning by (1) allowing the students to locate
and read materials pertaining to September 11th, which encourages the student to learn and comprehend the
material they are researching and (2) apply their knowledge about the heroic events of September 11th to
who their hero would be in their lives in real time. I could expand the students learning to higher levels by
having the students participate in a flipped classroom that asks the students to discuss with their parents or
grandparents about how they remember September 11th and what they were doing when the planes crashed
and how it affected their lives (like an interview with their parents or grandparents). Thus, to conclude and
provide feedback on the lesson I would have a class discussion on the second day about what they have
learned about September 11th and how they are feeling about the events that took place (writing what they
learned on the KWL Chart).

Importance of technology:
Using this multimedia authoring tool is critical to the project because it exposes and provides
students to a real speech, from George W. Bush, inspiring the nation to not let this event shake us, but to lend
helping hands to our brothers and sister that are hurting. Additionally, this multimedia authoring tool exposes
students, who were not alive during this event, to how damaging September 11th was to American life. Thus, I
believe that without this video students would not be able to be exposed to some of the events of September
11th, that sometimes get looked over, like the events that happened after September 11 th (the “horseman
that infiltrated Afghanistan to stop future attacks on American “soil”).

Internet Safety and Student Privacy:

In order to, minimize the risk for invasion of privacy or internet safety, to the student, that could arise
while implementing this learning experience the teacher could send home a permission form that the student
and parents or guardians have to sign saying that they are okay with watching the videos and researching the
content. Moreover, the teacher could send the links to the parents to watch the videos in advance to see if
the parents are in agreeance with the material being shown to their child. In addition, I would make sure to
cite my resources and lesson ideas that I used for my own lesson plan ideas. In fact, to alleviate any fears for
parents I would make sure to schedule a phone conference or parent-teacher conference with parents and
send home a permission form asking for permission to let their child watch videos and research content
related to September 11th. Furthermore, to alleviate the fears of administration I would make sure to collect a
form from each student’s parents or guardians stating if they approve or disapprove of having their child
being exposed to the videos and content.

Reflective Practice:
The activities that I created could impact student learning by providing students with the opportunity
to understand key components to the United States history that they may not have known about or lived
through. In fact, this could propel students to wanting to learn more about their countries history by
providing them the opportunity research and interview people and materials that may enlighten them about
September 11th. The other technological tools that I incorporated into my lesson are BrainPop to hook and
focus the students on September 11thand Timeliner to plot their events on a digital timeline that can be typed
out and easy to read.

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