In contemplating how to best explain the significance of the technological advance of the aircraft carrier to World War 2 I thought it best to present it in some physical/mental simulation.
With primitive communication and radar location devices pilots would launch themselves off of carriers to scout out enemy ships to engage. They would then return to their ships and either launch a larger sortie or head in the direction of engagement. Given distance and time the accuracy of such maneuvers in today's world are hard to imagine. To best demonstrate the complexity of this I believe a game is in order.
By using a game of Battle ship you can demonstrate the guess work involved in the battles. By putting the players across a basket ball court you can better demonstrate the distance they might have to cover.
If you use two players as your ace fighter pilots to try to spy out the other sides locations while under fire from the opposite side (paper ball/rubber ball hurling) you would get the adventure/danger of such an expedition. (one could include a bucket with a hole in the bottom for fuel consumption)
To make sure the team stays on task you have a team leader for each side that keeps track of shots fired and hits taken.
This lesson could easily be tied into conversations about evolution in other areas of technology in general or specifically related to warfare.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Technology Lesson
The purpose of any lesson is to deliver a concept to a student surrounded by contextualization, which they can then extrapolate and apply to their other observations. The assessment then becomes an analysis of how well they applied the concept to an observation and whether they did so appropriately.
If we take the example of an Astrolabe as a ancient device that remained relatively unchanged until the advent of of the Sextant and modern GPS. A lesson about the these technological innovations can then lead to an assessment that requires students to draw a correlation between a modern piece of technology and it's greater historical context. Even the evolution of e-books from clay tablets could be examined.
If we take the example of an Astrolabe as a ancient device that remained relatively unchanged until the advent of of the Sextant and modern GPS. A lesson about the these technological innovations can then lead to an assessment that requires students to draw a correlation between a modern piece of technology and it's greater historical context. Even the evolution of e-books from clay tablets could be examined.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
First Blog Post
This Blog is an example of how I might set-up one for my classroom.
the following links will take you to our related class links:
https://sites.google.com/site/worldstudiessample/
History Lesson ideas:
http://www.pinterest.com/97york/history-lesson-ideas/
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