Beyond-the-Basic Productivity Tools (BBPT)

Lesson Idea Name: Who are Lewis and Clark?

Content Area: Social Studies
Grade Level(s): 5th

Content Standard Addressed: CCSS:4.SL.1

Students will understand the main idea of material heard, viewed, or read. Interpret or summarize
the ideas in own words. Analyzing: Break down a concept or idea into parts and show
the relationships among the parts.

Technology Standard Addressed: 3/ Knowledge Constructor

Selected Technology Tool: Board Builder

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable):

https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/bd519bd4-1c56-4063-9594-9b282de572c3
https://app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/18921838-1791-4c0c-9c78-94dc54d56cd0

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Level(s): ☒ Remembering ☒ Understanding ☒ Applying ☒ Analyzing

☒ Evaluating ☒ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration:

☐ Infusion Level: Students may work at a higher Bloom’s Level, but they do not have any “Voice or Choice”
during the activity and most of the decisions are made by the teacher.

☒ Integration Level: We would like to see ALL lessons/activities reach this level. The project is student-
driven. Students have “Voice and Choice” in the activities, selecting the topic of study and determining the
technology tool to demonstrate mastery of the standard. The teacher becomes more of a facilitator.
☐ Expansion Level: The projects created are shared outside of the classroom, publishing student work and
promoting authorship. This could be reached by showcasing the project on the school’s morning
newscast, posting the project to the classroom blog, or publishing via an outside source.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Students will watch the videos linked above. The video addresses
everything the students need to know about Lewis and Clark and their expedition. Throughout the video,
students will answer to following questions on a piece of paper. 1. Who is Meriwether Lewis? 2. Who is
William Clark? 3. What did they do? After the video is completed, students will be instructed to go to
Discovery Education, Board Builder. Students will make their own board describing who Lewis and Clark are
and what they did. (a sample layout has been provided.) This lesson corresponds to the UDL principles by
including multiple means of engagement. Students will get to show what they learned through their own
creation.
Lesson idea implementation: In this lesson, the teacher is to observe and monitor student’s comprehension
of the information while the students create their own boards. Instruction will take 5 minutes as I will explain
what and how the students will be doing. The videos will take about 30 minutes to get through. The board
creation will take 30 minutes to complete.
After students are done with their board, they will be assessed based on the information they used to
describe Lewis and Clark and their expedition. If their board shows signs of strong comprehension to the
topic, students will then share their boards aloud in front of the class. While students are presenting, the
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other students must take note on one thing they liked about the presenter’s presentation. Students work will
then be published on the Discovery Education, Board Builder site. This allows for people in the community to
review what the students have learned. After student’s work is published, I will provide online feedback
through the usage of technology.

Reflective Practice: The activities in my lesson could impact student learning by giving them the opportunity
to create using a new technique. Decision making is left to the student which will aims to increase his or her
problem-solving skills. This lesson about Lewis and Clark is very important and can be further extended by
having the students create their own expedition maps. The students can focus more on the expedition rather
on Lewis and Clark themselves.

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