Interactive Google Doc Lesson
Subject: Idaho History
Grade: 4th Grade
Topic: Westward Expansion
District Objectives
Technology Goals
Description
This lesson will ask learners to collaborate to tell a story of a family’s life while traveling on the Oregon Trail. By using a shared doc, students will have a place to gather, organize and transform data points from internet research into several journal entries. Each student is given a character to portray for this activity. After watching a video describing their journey on the Oregon Trail, reading journal entries from that era and visiting websites that contain facts about the Oregon Trail, students will create journal entries of different family members describing their day on the Oregon Trail. Students will assume the role of either mother, father, son or daughter, sharing their experience of that fictional day from the perspective of their assumed role.
Grade: 4th Grade
Topic: Westward Expansion
District Objectives
- Research using multiple sources and integrate information to write journal entries about the Oregon Trail
- Describe a land form or climatic condition that made travel for pioneers difficult
Technology Goals
- Learning to share a document, including permissions, ie. “view, comment or edit”
- Learning to work responsibly with others on a document, including staying in your own space and performing your role so others can perform theirs
- Organizing research and data points gathered from the internet in a table
- Converting data points from a table to personal narrative form
- Working as a group to ensure a cohesive assignment submission
Description
This lesson will ask learners to collaborate to tell a story of a family’s life while traveling on the Oregon Trail. By using a shared doc, students will have a place to gather, organize and transform data points from internet research into several journal entries. Each student is given a character to portray for this activity. After watching a video describing their journey on the Oregon Trail, reading journal entries from that era and visiting websites that contain facts about the Oregon Trail, students will create journal entries of different family members describing their day on the Oregon Trail. Students will assume the role of either mother, father, son or daughter, sharing their experience of that fictional day from the perspective of their assumed role.