Week 6: Concept Mind Map

Works Cited.

1. Deverell, W. (2009). United States history. Orlando, FL: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

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3. Thomas Paine and Common Sense (2015, February 12). Retrieved June 08, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-LGxOll2zc

4. Paul Revere Mini Biography (2013, September 16). Retrieved June 11, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH12l5NdJlY

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Lesson Plan Idea: The Revolutionary War essentially made the United States who they are today. Without victory, who knows what the British would have done to them. It was a monumental victory that put them on track to becoming the world’s greatest power. Students will use this piece of technology in groups and break down the four most important parts of this war. Each of these important parts played a role in the outcome of the war. With the abundance of information at their disposal and being able to see things pop out at them, they will be able through this piece of technology be able to understand the lesson better and interact and collaborate with one another. They will create a 5 paragraph essay off of this mind map that will be done at the end of the unit. It will be their final assessment of the unit and will gauge if they have grasped the Revolutionary War and how big of an impact it left on the world.

Learning Objective: Having a brief of understanding before we begin the lesson on this important war will give the students the knowledge and background on just how important this war was to the future of the U.S. Students will use the mind map to gain an understanding of the key people who impacted the war on both sides. They will evaluate and understand how the colonists became fed up with the British and how they were treating them with various taxes and laws. The background information on the key individuals will give them an understanding of how important leadership was in this war and how it played a key role in the United States winning the war. Evaluating the key battles will give the students an understanding of how at certain points, the Continental Army was pushed to the brink of defeat. However, through leadership, especially George Washington, students will be able to understand from this mind map how he was able to will the Patriots to victory.

Collaboration: Students will work together in groups of four and five students and break down each of the four subcategories. They will use these four days to go in depth with each of the subcategories and use this information for their 5 paragraph essay. Taking information from each of them will be required because the essay will need to be done in chronological order. It will start from issues that started the war and end with the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.

Application: Through Richard Mayer’s principles, students will incorporate the signaling principle, the segmenting principle, and the spatial contiguity principle. The signaling principle is key in this because students will have arrows and spotlighting that will guide them to the material. They will be able to see headings that will guide them where they need to be. Once they go to those headings, all of the important information will be there to guide them through the process. With regards to the segmenting principle, students will have the information broken down into segments which will allow them to grasp the information much easier than it would be if it was all presented at once. Spatial contiguity is helpful for students in this type of technology because everything is close to each other on the screen in terms of categories. All of the information is right there for them to grasp, break down, evaluate, and understand the key parts of the Revolutionary War.

Reflection: I recently used Prezi for mind mapping in my class but, it was very difficult for students to follow along to. They ended up creating mind maps on their own with loose leaf paper which was not very practical. Coggle was a great tool to use and not only will students use this coggle to write a 5 paragraph essay at the end of this unit, they will use it to create an assignment on their own in a future unit. This type of technology will be perfect for collaboration among students because they will have to breakdown and analyze each of the four subcategories and understand the impact that they had on the outcome of the Revolutionary War. This site was VERY easy to use and students will have no issue being able to use it on their own. They will be able to access this from home and have it at their disposal to use to prepare for the five paragraph essay at the end of the unit.