Overview and Background: Unit: Communications

Connie Moore : Cheney USD 268

English. Language Arts. Multimedia. Science. Social Studies. Technology. : English. Language Arts. Multimedia. Science. Social Studies. Technology. : History. Social Studies.

Cheney : Grades 1 - 1

Title:	Communications
Topics:	History of Communication
Time Frame:
Start Date:	-
Status:	Draft
Date Revised:

Other Designers:

Summary:
Students will look at different types of communication to understand how it
has changed through the years.

Print Materials Needed:

Resources:
Communications machines / by Sam Howard.
Five Notable Inventors / by Wade Hudson.

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:
Link 1:http://mediahistory.umn.edu/time/century.html

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

State:	Local Standard
Title:
Standard(s):	Communication Standards: Use print, magazine, & instructional resources and cite sources. Read literature from a variety of time periods for a specific purpose. Use narrative and expository writing styles to create and publish in a variety of formats. Social Studies Standards: Compares and contrasts ways people communicate with each other now and long ago.

Understandings:
user	Methods of communication have changed over the years which has changed people's lives. The use of technology creates a greater demand for information.

Essential Questions:
User	How has communication changed? How has the speed of communication changed lives? What are the positive and negative effects of these changes?

Knowledge and Skills:

K
Different kinds of communication used today (Email, TV, radio, fax, telephones, computers)
Various kinds of communication used in the past (horseback, railroads, carrier pigeons, sleds, signals such as torches, flags or hand signals, smoke signals, telegraphs, radio)

S
Select an invention that has impacted communication.
Explain how lives have changed as a result of this invention.

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

Assessment Summary:
Each student is a director of a museum. The museum is creating a new display showing communication changes through the years. Each communication form needs a plaque that shows an invention used in a particular time period. This display would include a visual as well as two short paragraphs explaining uses and the impact it had on people's lives.

Task/Prompt: Museum Director

Type: Performance Task

Topics: History of Communication

Summary:
Each student is a director of a museum. The museum is creating a new display showing communication changes through the years. Each communication form needs a plaque that shows an invention used in a particular time period. This display would include a visual as well as two short paragraphs explaining uses and the impact it had on people's lives.

Print Materials Needed:

Resources:

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:
Link 1: http://
Link 2: http://
Link 3: http://
Link 4: http://
Link 5: http://

Notes:

Student Directions:
You are a director of a museum. The museum is creating a new display showing communication changes through the years. Each communication form needs a plaque that shows an invention used in a particular time period. This display would include a visual as well as two short paragraphs explaining uses and the impact it had on people's lives.

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

Learning Activities:

W
K-W-L chart about what students already know and understand about various forms of communication.

H
How would your life be different without TV?

E
Research Project on various communication topics from an early time period (ie messages by runners, messages on horseback, carrier pigeons, signals such as torches, flags, smoke, hand signals.
Telegraph activity with Balto story. (Hidden Surprises Theme 2)
What adjustments in communication might you need to make if you were blind? (Rosie, A Visiting Dog*s Story in Hidden Surprises Theme 3.) Also, Helen Keller.
Coyote Places the Stars

R
Students will peer review each others plaques and make suggestions.

E
Each student is a director of a museum. The museum is creating a new display showing communication changes through the years. Each communication form needs a plaque that shows an invention used in a particular time period. This display would include a visual as well as two short paragraphs explaining uses and the impact it had on people's lives.

Notes: