Analysis Of The Lesson: Oklahoma Piktochart

Social Studies Final

1. Title of the Lesson: Oklahoma Piktochart

2. Instructional Unit: Introduction to Oklahoma

3. Target Audience (Course & Grade Level): Oklahoma History & 9th Grade

4. Time Requirement/Duration of lesson: 55 Minutes/ 1 class day

5. Introduction or Rationale (Significance) of the lesson:
a. This lesson introduces Oklahoma history to students in a project based format. This lesson is designed to give students broad brush strokes of information that the rest of the semester will be used to reinforce. The lesson is a project based which utilizes Piktochart’s system. This allows each student to create their own infographic and be responsible for their own work. This lesson meets several NCSS and state standards, including

NCSS Theme 8: Science, Technology, and Society: This lesson examines how science and technology, through new developments, has altered the Oklahoman society.
h. NCSS Theme 10: Civic Ideals, and Practices: The lesson allows examine the various citizen roles and their duties and responsibilities to Oklahoma.

8. Oklahoma Academic Standards addressed in lesson:
a. Process and Literacy Skills (PALS)
b. Content Standards (CS)
i. Content Standard 1: The student will describe the state’s geography and the historic foundations laid by Native American, European, and American cultures.
1. Integrate visual information to identify and describe the significant physical and human features including major trails, railway lines, waterways, cities, ecological regions, natural resources, highways, and landforms.

9. Learning Objectives:
a. Students will list 5 facts about Oklahoma from their prior knowledge for the bell ringer to 100% completion.
b. Students will create a Piktochart that explains at least 8 key points of Oklahoma History to 95% accuracy.
c. Students will list new 5 facts about Oklahoma that was learned research or from the class presentations for the exit slip to 100%

Compelling and Supporting Question(s):
a. What are some key geographic features of Oklahoma?
b. What are the main cities in Oklahoma?
c. What has Oklahoma happened in Oklahoma that drew national attention?
d. What is Oklahoma’s main economy?
e. What are some key dates in Oklahoma history?
f. What is unique about Oklahoma?
g. Who are some famous Oklahomans? 12. Student Handouts (Instructions & Rubrics)

Instruction Sheet Spend at least 15 to 20 minutes researching Oklahoma and its history. Then spend the rest of the period to create a Piktochart. The Piktochart will examine Oklahoma’s history using at least 8 Piktochart slides that incorporates your research in an original project.

Rubric
CATEGORY
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Attractiveness
Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation.
Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation.
Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content.
Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presentation content.