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"Obadiah Comes Fourteen"
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Marion Crowley, Jennifer Gaylord and Claudia Novak School: All Title One schools Date: April 25, 2003 Grade and Subject: Fourth Grade supporting the book “Obadiah Come Fourteen” by Elizabeth Spring. Objectives: Social Studies: To make students aware what Colonial gravestones look like. To introduce the use of Primary Resources in the form of gravestones. Language Arts: Reading, listening and viewing. Technology: Mouse skills, going to Internet Explorer, clicking of Favorites, use of Back Button and clicking on hyperlinks. Overview: Students will go to pre selected websites and answer questions (Learning Logs) on Colonial life in the 1700’s. This lesson will take two periods. One for research and another for completing the tombstone drawing. Learner Outcomes: Students will answer all questions in the Learning Logs. Curriculum Standards Addressed: K-4 History & State History Curriculum Standard 15. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply their knowledge of geographic concepts, skills, and technology to interpret the past and the present and to plan for the future. Describe changes in the ways people have earned their living in New Hampshire from the pre-colonial time to the present and identify and discuss corresponding changes that have occurred in physical and human systems Historical Understanding Curriculum Standard 16. Students will demonstrate the ability to employ historical analysis, interpretation, and comprehension to make reasoned judgments and to gain an understanding, perspective, and appreciation of history and its uses in contemporary situations. Use basic research skills to investigate and prepare a report on a historical person or event. K-4 History & State History Curriculum Standard 17. Students will demonstrate a knowledge of the chronology and significance of the unfolding story of America including the history of their community, New Hampshire and the United States. Employ the techniques of historical analysis, interpretation, and comprehension identified in curriculum standard 16 to gain an understanding of local, New Hampshire, and United States history. Materials: Computers, SmartBoard, pencils and paper. Procedure: 1.) Using the SmartBoard or large screen monitor, reintroduce the “Obadiah Comes Fourteen” website and in particular, The A Telling Tombstone Tale Times Activity. 2.) Teacher can do this activity using the large screen monitor. Could also be done in Computer lab time. 3.) Take the Virtual Tour of Fletcher Hill Farm with teacher led discussion. 4.) Take the Virtual Tour of Colonial Cemeteries & Tombstones with Teacher led discussion. 5.) Have student select a person from either the book or from the Fletcher Family. 6.) Hand out blank paper and pencil and have student complete their drawing of a tombstone. Extensions: Complete any other of the activities in the Obadiah unit. Assessment: Completed drawing. |
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| Useful Internet site: Central Cemetery - Dunstable - Fletcher
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