- Author:
- Carrie Robledo
- Subject:
- Social Studies
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Level:
- Middle School
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- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial
- Language:
- English
Education Standards
Social Studies: Revolution - Identify and Explain the Cycle of Change
Overview
This mini-project comes following the study of the enlightenment and serves as the summative assessment for the Age of Revolution unit. Students will have their interactive notebooks from which to draw the events they need to complete the timeline.
Students will use Cospaces to create a timeline that depicts and explains the order of events (patterns) that led to the creation of new governments that were created as a result of the events surrounding the Age of Revolution.
Instructor Directions
Name of Project: Age of Revolution: Identify and Explain the Cycle of Change |
Project Description | |
Name of Project | Age of Revolution: Identifying Patterns during the Age of Revolution |
Subject Area | Social Studies: World History |
Targeted Standards | ; ; ; ; 7.H.2.1; 7.C&G.1.3;7.C&G.1.4 ; ; ; ; |
Driving Question / Problem / Activator | What commonalities occurred surrounding the various revolutions that took place during the Age of Revolution? What are they? Why did they occur? How did the events lead to changes in government? |
Project Summary | This mini-project comes following the study of the enlightenment and serves as the summative assessment for the Age of Revolution unit. Students will have their interactive notebooks from which to draw the events they need to complete the timeline.Students will use Cospaces to create a timeline that depicts and explains the order of events (patterns) that led to the creation of new governments that were created as a result of the events surrounding the Age of Revolution. |
Estimated Time | 300 minutes 5- 60 minute blocks |
Materials / Resources (including link to slideshow if available) | Student ChromebooksSlideShowCoSpacesVR GogglesPhoneThinking Maps |
Tags | Age of Revolution |
Project Outline | |
Ask | National pride often led to political disagreements that resulted in revolutions that forever changed the history of each country.Prove the patterns that took place during the events surrounding the Age of Revolution by identifying evidence of...1 - rising nationalism2- revolution 3- government reform. |
Imagine | -The Global Revolutionary Museum needs to submit historical documentation before they open their “Age of Revolution” Exhibit.-You have been hired to prove that new governments that were created throughout “The Age of Revolution”, follow an obvious pattern. -To present the information to the Museum Committee, it is required that you accurately show this pattern using a virtual timeline, historical facts, and interesting graphics. When the exhibit is approved by committee, you get paid!!! |
Plan | Your group will pick 3 revolutions that we have studied in the unit (United States of America, England, France, Venezuelean, Chilian, Peruvian, & Hatian). Refer to your notes from this unit, and select elements that support the pattern from each of your nations. Create a shared doc (or other) with your team to record your evidence. Include ideas about how you would illustrate that evidence. To prove the statement, find evidence for each of ..-nationalist events-revolution events-resulting government changes and documentsIn what order did the events occur?What images will you use? |
Create | Using CoSpaces, create a timeline that shows the following for the revolutions your group has selected. Nationalist movements or events that occured prior to the revolutions. Revolutions that occurred during the Age of Revolution (explained). New governments (documents) that were established as a result of the revolutions (explained). Images from each revolution*Each revolution should have a “room” in Cospaces*The rooms as well as the events within the room should reflect chronological order*Each room should have appropriate imagery and text to explain how the evidence supports the claim. |
Improve | How could you and your group have better completed the task?Given the opportunity to complete this again, what would you do differently, why? |
Closure / Student Reflections | Students will answer the following question:Identify the pattern of events that occurred during the “Age of Revolution”Create a “Flow Map” to illustrate and explain the pattern. Then, create a “Multi-Flow Map” to explain why governments frequently the reasons for and the results of revolutions?” |
Possible Modifications / Extensions | Extension: Have students reflect and explain how the Age of Enlightenment led to the creation of New Governments worldwide. Extension: Teachers may assign one revolutionary government from North America, Europe, and South America to each group to increase student understanding of the global nature of these events.Advanced learning groups can be assigned more nations. |
Evaluation (Pre/Post)
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1. Identify the following terms
- Nationalism
- Revolution
- Government
2. Why were new governments created after the Age of Revolution?
3. Which nation did not experience significant change as a result of the Age of Revolution?