Lesson Plan: Age of Revolution 1650-1800

Drew Asbury

Grade 7 World Civilizations

“Idaho Magazine”

Lesson: The students will be able to analyze the differences between the methodologies employed by historians and those used by archaeologists and will determine why each discipline uses their own methods.

Standard:

6-9.WHC.4.4.3 Analyze and evaluate the global expansion of liberty and democracy through revolution and reform movements in challenging authoritarian or despotic regimes.

Time: 2 days.

Anticipatory Set: Have students read a passage from the text book from a primary document. Then have the students view arrowheads, pottery, bone, plant and soil. Have a brief discussion on what they think each means, then introduce the Idaho magazine article on Dr. Lee Sappington.

Content Goal: Students will be able to distinguish between the methods used by historians versus those used by archaeologists.

Process Goal: Students will draw out the organization of their house such as floor plans and things that are in them. This will help them to ‘tell a story’ about the inhabitants of that house.

Materials: Liberty!: The American Revolution. Vol 3- “The Times That Try Men’s Souls.” (Found in Albertsons library) Video study guide.

Lesson Activity:

  • Anticipatory set
  • Have the students popcorn read the article by paragraph. When finished have answer the following questions in a class discussion.
  • What questions do Archaeologists ask? What about historians?
  • Is one method more effective than the other? Why?
  • Have the students draw out the floor plan of their house and the things in them and what they are made of. Then have the students write a story about their house and the things in them only a few sentences long.
  • Then have the students exchange each others floor plans with out the story and have them write the story for the new floor plan. Also have them write a short sentence or two explaining why they told the story the way they did.

Closure: have students read what their partners wrote and then relate what they learned back to the questions for discussion.