Ms.+Niven+Science+Grade+6+Page

= How does art illustrate a culture of learning? =
 * **How can you use art to illustrate how electricity/technology has changed society?**
 * 3.4.6.A3. Explain how knowledge from other fields of study (STEM) integrate to create new technologies.
 * 3.4.6.A1. Identify how creative thinking and economic and cultural influences shape technological development.
 * 3.4.6.B1. Describe how economic, political, and cultural issues are influenced by the development and use of technology.
 * 3.4.6.B3. Interpret how societal and cultural priorities are reflected in technological devices.
 * 3.4.6.B4. Demonstrate how new technologies are developed based on people’s needs, wants, values, and/ or interests


 * **Students will:**
 * Work in groups of two/three; total of 27 students in class.
 * Investigate a period of time and how electricity and technology changed over that time period.
 * Create scrapbook pages to represent the types of changes and advances that were made throughout that time period.
 * Collate the pages in one scrapbook in chronological order.
 * Work together to analyze the changes and how they have effected society.
 * Upload photographs of their scrapbook pages to Voicethread and annotate each page.


 * **Groups were assigned these time periods:**
 * 1600 - 1650
 * 1650 - 1700
 * 1700 - 1750
 * 1750 - 1800
 * 1800 - 1850
 * 1850 - 1900
 * 1900 - 1950
 * 1950 - 2000
 * 2000 - Present


 * ===== **It's a work in progress:** =====

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 * === What have we accomplished? (timeline) ===
 * =====Project introduced, and initial thoughts organized: April 19th - 20th=====
 * =====Research and analyzing facts: April 23rd - 25th=====
 * =====Planning, creating, and building scrapbook pages: April 26th - 29th=====
 * =====Photographing, uploading, and annotating Voicethread pages: April 30th - May 2nd=====
 * =**The Finished Product: An Annotated Scrapbook**=
 * Follow this link to our class' Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/share/3026280/ or view the Voicethread below.
 * === **Resources that can aid students in gathering information:** ===
 * http://www.electricityforum.com/electricity-history.html
 * https://www.edfdemasz.hu/pages/aloldal.jsp?id=6430
 * [[file:History of Electricity.pdf]]
 * http://www.tvakids.com/electricity/history.htm
 * http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/electricity_timeline.htm
 * [[file:milestones.pdf]]
 * http://www.accentenergy.com/Energy101/ElectricityArticles.aspx/28_History-of-Electricity