Brian Kelly EDU-580 Technology Integrated Lesson Standards: Standard 1: History of United States and New York-use a variety

of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York Key Idea 2: Important ideas, social and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions from New York State and United States history illustrate the connections and interactions of people and events across time and from a variety of perspectives. Performance Indicator: investigate key turning points in New York State and United States history and explain why these events or developments are significant. Standard 3: Geography-use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live local, national, and globalincluding the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earths surface. Key Idea 1: Geography can be divided into six essential elements, which can be used to analyze important historic, geographic, economic, and environmental questions and issues. These six elements include: the world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical settings (including natural resources), human systems, environment and society, and the use of geography. Performance Indicator: describe the relationships between people and environments and the connections between people and places. ISTE NETS: 4b. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project. Objective: Students will be able to access the struggles colonists endured when starting their new lives in Jamestown. Introduction to Lesson: Make a list of at least 10 things you would need to consider when settling in a new never before settled land. After about 3-5 minutes the class will come back together and the teacher will ask the students to volunteer to give answers. The teacher will make a list on the board of what the students came up, so the students can refer back to it as the class continues. Provide Information: The teacher will provide a brief PowerPoint with basic information about the colony of Jamestown.

Provide Practice: The students will go to www.historyglobe.com, which has the Jamestown Online Adventure where the students will be able decisions on where to settle, what crops to plant, the type of housing to have, and how to deal with the natives. Once they have completed the questions the program tells the students whether they had survived based on the decisions that they made. Provide Knowledge of Results: The teacher will ask the question Who was able to survive at Jamestown? to the class, which will prompt a brief discussion. The teacher will be able to give written feedback through www.edmodo.com where there will be a writing assignment. The teacher will be able to send the feedback in a message through edmodo. Review the Activity: The students will summarize the important points from this lesson by answering this writing assignment question. In one to two paragraphs state whether you were able to survive based on the decisions you made during the Jamestown activity. Explain why or why not you were able to survive living in Jamestown. If not what could you have done differently? This would be submitted through edmodo. Method of Assessment: The assessment will be in the form of a short writing assignment. This assignment is a reflection because it gets the students thinking about the decisions they made and whether they were the correct ones and if not they get to explore what they could have done differently to be successful. If the student made the right decisions then they are reflecting on why they were able to succeed.