Beyond-the-Basic Productivity Tools (BBPT)

Lesson Idea Name: Stack the Facts

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

Content Standard Addressed: SS5H6 Describe the importance of key people, events, and developments
between 1950- 1975.

Technology Standard Addressed: Students will use product to create a presentation on a social studies topic
given to them by the instructor.

Selected Technology Tool: Bubbl.us

URL(s) to support the lesson (if applicable): www.bubbl.us

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s): ALL 6 Levels

☐ Remembering ☐ Understanding ☐ Applying ☐ Analyzing ☐ Evaluating ☐ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (Loti Level): Level 4: Integration

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

Universal Design for Learning (UDL): This lesson will support students in their learning because they will
be using research and content knowledge to create a concept map that ties all their ideas and
information together. This will be a multistep process. First, they will learn about this topic, which in
this case is the Civil Rights Movement, then conduct their own research, and finally make the
concept map. The technology tool that is selected for the lesson will help the students see their ideas
all in one place and help them tie it all together.
Lesson idea implementation: The teacher using the selected technology tool in a game will introduce
the project. The whole class will help the teacher create a concept map about their schools facts so
they can become familiar with it. The activity as a whole should take a few days because they will be
completing multiple different steps. First, they will learn about the Civil Rights Movement as a class,
then the next day conduct their research. After conducting research, the students will take a class
session to make their concept map theoretically on paper, and on the final day the students will
create the concept map with the technology.
The product can be used to differentiate instruction because it can be used in different subjects and
having the ideas scrambled on the map and the students organizing it accurately could reverse the
lesson. Having the students add additional details, such as further events and smaller instances that
happened throughout to add onto their learning, can extend this lesson. The lesson will be
concluded by the students sharing one fact or part of their map with the rest of the class they
discovered during their research step. Students will receive feedback from a peer when they make
their map on paper as well as from the teacher before using the technology in the final phase.
Reflective Practice: I feel this lesson will impact student learning because the students will be using
many different skills in one lesson. They will conduct research, evaluate and analyze their research,
and then finally utilize technology to evaluate and present their work. An idea for extending the
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lesson would be to create a timeline of events that happened during the Civil Rights Movement. This
can be done on Nettreker, or even using Discovery Education to learn more and further knowledge.

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