Mary McGrath

Content Knowledge

Subject

Pedagogy

Activity

Technology

TPACK Creating Assignment Template

History and Social Science

Grade
Level

3rd grade

Learning
Objective

The student will explain the importance of the basic principles

that form the foundation of a republican form of government by
identifying the contributions of George Washington; Thomas
Jefferson; Abraham Lincoln; Rosa Parks; Thurgood Marshall;
Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Cesar Chavez.

Technology

Directions
for Use

Link to the
example
product

1. The teacher will divide students into groups and

each group will get assigned a historical figure and
4 ways in which that figure impacted society.
2. The students will use laptops provided by the
school and go to http://mrnussbaum.com/bio2/ to
research their assigned historical figure.
3. After researching their figure, they will go to
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/inter
1. http://mrnussbaum.com/bio2/
2. http://www.softschools.com/teacher_resources/tim
eline_maker/
1. Go to http://mrnussbaum.com/bio2/
2. Click on All Biographies.
3. Find and click on the historical figure that your
group was chosen to research.
4. Read about that historical figure and the ways in
which they impacted society.
5. Next, go to
http://www.softschools.com/teacher_resources/tim
eline_maker/
6. Press Start.
7. Title your timeline the name of your historical
figure.
8. Put the events I gave you into the correct order
based on the information you just read.
Screenshot below!

Mary McGrath