Module3 Authentic Instruction Activity

April Finley

ITEC 7530

September 20, 2011

Module 3 Authentic Lesson Plan

Subject and Grade level:  Social Studies/ 5^th Grade

GPS Standard:  SS5H8 The student will describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950-1975.

Explain the key events and people of the Civil Rights movement; include Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and civil rights activities of Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Authentic Instruction Method: Simulation and Role Play

Technologies Used:

·         Computer

·         Internet

·         Digital Camcorder

·         Using the computer, students will go to The National Civil Rights Museum website at http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/ and click on the “Educational Resources” tab.

·         Select E-Learning

·         Students will go through a simulation activity entitled: “Before the Boycott: Riding the Bus.”

·         Students will go through the 39 slides and answer the closing questions on the last slide. Students may use Google (www.google.com) to assist them with answering the questions and their textbook.

·         Students will work in groups to re-create one of the five stops in the simulation and record it using a digital camcorder.  Groups will be assigned by the teacher.

·         Videos will be shared with the class to view.