1.
Title:
Lincoln and invention 1800-1830
2.
Broad
Goals: Students will know and understand inventions
that improved the lives of people living during 1809-1830.
3.
Standards: National
standard- VII. Science, Technology and Society a. identify and describe
examples in which science and technology have changed the lives of
people, such
as in homemaking, childcare, work, transportation, and communication
4.
Lesson
Objective: My
third
grade social studies students will demonstrate their knowledge by
completing a
work sheet on inventions during the 1800-1830’s with complete accuracy
after
reading, small group discussion.
6. List Recourses:
Freedman, Russell
(1987).
McGovern, Ann
(1992). If You Grew Up With Abraham
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1800/objects/index.html
http://mrlincolnandfriends.org/
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800a.shtml
http://42explore.com/rivers.htm
7.
Focusing
Activity: After reading a paragraph about rivers, I
will ask my students to think about and answer these questions about
the rivers
in Illinois.
How have the rivers been
important to
people who settled in Illinois? (Travel
transportation,
and trade routes.)
Why
were settlements built along the rivers? (Rivers were important for
farming,
good soil, moving the goods to other locations.
What
could farmers do with rivers if the region
was dry? (Irrigation)
Then the students
will identify the rivers important rivers in Illinois on a map.
(Illinois,
Rock, Mississippi, Kaskaskia, Wabash, Ohio
8.
Purpose:
Student will understand the many events and inventions that took
place
during Abraham Lincoln’s life time.
9.
Instruction: We will be discussing three
things.
Inventions that enhanced our lives, transportation, and how these
occurred
during Lincoln’s life time. The teacher will have a time line on
display. We will discuss Lincoln’s life
and post on
the time line important events in his life. Next the students will
discuss how
inventions have changed our lives for the better.
The students will identify
several
pictures of inventions that evolved during Lincoln’s life time. I will
have the
students predict what they think these items are and what they do. Then
I will
give the students information on these inventions and how they helped
make our
lives better so the students may compare the real use of the invention
to their
prediction. Once inventions have been
identified, the students will place the picture of the invention on the
time
line at the time they were invented.
Next, we will discuss major
events that
took place such as the war of 1812 and it effect on America, the building
of the National Road, The Erie Canal, and
the change in transportation. . From this the students will see how many new
and exciting things were happening during Lincoln’s life time.