S1+Martin+Keith

=Stage 1 Identify Desired Results= Grades 3-5 Students draw on concepts and processes from history to develop historical perspective and understand issues of continuity and change in the community, Maine, the United States, and world.
 * **Establish Goals:** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: Social Studies - E. History

District Curriculum - MSAD 9: Social Studies SS.3.7 Students will compare and contrast life in rural Maine today with life in the mid 1800's. ||

//What understandings are desired?//
•Many inventions and innovations made life easier as society changed. •School and home lives of children have changed since the 1800's. ||
 * //Students will understand that:// **(U)** ||
 * •During the 1800's life was very different because it was based mainly on agrarian society.

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•In what ways have inventions and innovations changed the lives of people compared to those in the 1800's? •How have the school and home lives of children changed from the 1800's to today? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How was life different for people in the 1800's compared to today?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•Key Factual Info: __1800's transportation__ - by foot, horse, oxen, wagon/cart, covered wagon, train, steam boat, row boat, canoe; __1800's jobs__ - school master, farmer, cobbler, logger, peddler, blacksmith, tinker, shopkeeper; __1800's family life/social__ - Quilting bee, barn/house raising, fair, barn/square dancing, story telling/shadow stories; 1800's school - one room with all ages, quill pen, slate. || •Explain key terminology such as pioneer, westward expansion, transportation, occupations, school, timelines. •Interpret how inventions/innovations changed daily life. •Create a timeline of important events. •Imagine what it would be like to be a child in the 1800's. •Compare and contrast their own life with someone from the 1800's. •Self-assess their current knowledge of transportation, occupations, school and family life today. ||
 * //Students will know:// **(K)** || //Students will be able to:// **(S)** ||
 * •Terminology: pioneer, westward expansion, transportation, occupations, school, and timelines


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**