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Sponsored Educational Materials exploring HISTORY & TECHNOLOGYat the white house STUDENTS WILL Research innovations’ impact on society Write nonfiction guides Write narratives with research-based settings ELA + Social Studies Lessons on Innovations That Changed American Society SCHOLASTIC and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. © 2019 694923 Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. of trademarks and/or registered trademarks logos are SCHOLASTIC and associated Photos: White House Historical Association GRADES 6–8 Visit scholastic.com/whitehousehistory for additional resources. Lesson Researching Technological Innovations Help students discover how the White House played a key role in introducing cutting-edge technology that still impacts us today. Objective Have students pair up and and/or bit.ly/WH-Tech2 for internet Students will apply primary brainstorm technologies research; for those under 13, you may and secondary sources to 1that are important in their daily print (or project onto the board) some present information on lives (for example, phone, school advances from the site, then direct historical technology. bus, etc.). Then facilitate a class students to use books or child-friendly, Standards discussion about technologies we COPPA-compliant research sites. CCSS ELA, Grs. 6–8 use that now seem mundane but Direct each pair to create a RH.1 were game-changing when first Cite specific textual evidence White House Visitor's Guide introduced. (Examples: vacuum from primary and secondary brochure that focuses on their cleaner, electricity, telegraph, air 4 sources chosen technology. Hand out the conditioning, etc.) CCRA.W.4 Create Your Brochure! activity sheet Produce writing developed, Explain that historically, to guide their work in describing organized, and styled to task an audience the White House has hosted, their technology, explaining its CCRA.W.7 2presented, and introduced all impact, and drawing conclusions Conduct short research projects kinds of new technologies. In fact, on how it has shaped life since it's from focused questions, one way we can consider how introduction. demonstrating understanding technology has changed in the Host a showcase in which Time United States is to look at how pairs present their brochures, 120 minutes and when new technologies were or set up a gallery walk. adopted at the White House. Show 5 Materials • Internet access for student the classroom poster, emphasizing pairs (or computer lab time) the tech callouts. Ask: What would • Tap Into the Tech activity make a specific technology at the Supporting All Learners sheet White House a game changer? To increase the challenge: • Create Your Brochure! Guide students toward criteria such Have students prepare a video activity sheet as: enhances human comfort, is or slide presentation to replace • Blank 8½ x 11-inch paper more efficient, builds community or supplement their brochure. and art supplies connections, has a unique Teachers can include a public- • Welcome to the White purpose. Collect ideas on the speaking rubric. House classroom poster board. As a class, decide on five To decrease the challenge: criteria of top technologies. Show students how to turn the Pair up students to research questions on the Create Your technological advances using Brochure! sheet into sentence Check out the White 3the Tap Into the Tech activity sheet. stems to facilitate their writing. House Experience App Explain that at the end, they will to find educational and interactive experiences choose one technology that’s ELA Lesson Online! to further engage most interesting to them. Students students with history. over 13 may use bit.ly/WH-Tech1 Teach students more applications for research Just scan the code with our story-writing activity based on historical above to get started! setting at scholastic.com/whitehousehistory. Activity Name Tap Into the Tech As you start your fact-finding mission on White House innovations, use this chart to collect info. Then choose the technology on your list that’s most interesting to use for your final brochure. The Technology Immediate Impact The Bigger Picture List four or five Explain how the Combine your research technological advances technology improved life. and inferencing skills that were adopted at the (Example: It made cleaning to describe how the White House. (Example: the the many rooms at the technology made life vacuum cleaner.) White House easier.) better for all Americans. Activity Name Create Your Brochure! Now that you’ve chosen your top technology from White House history, it’s time to present it in a Visitor’s Guide This chandelier was made by Christoph Palme & Co., brochure. Follow this planner to help you get creative. a lighting design firm that supplied electric lighting fixtures to the White House in 1902. Page 1 Think of the cover as what sells your technology and makes people want to come to the White House to learn about it. On this first page, include a clear title that reveals your technology. Feel free to get clever and catchy! Also, include a great photo or illustration of your innovation. Jot down several possibilities for your title here: Page 2 Here, give visitors a short history of your innovation. Who invented it, and when was it introduced? What exactly does it do? How does it work? Page 3 Describe why the technology was adopted at the White House. What issue did it help with? How did it impact the lives of those living and working there at the time? Page 4 The back cover wraps up your brochure. Give a short report on how this technology impacted the nation at the time. How did it make life easier or better? What problems did it solve? And how has it evolved over time to serve generations of Americans? Lesson Developing Narrative Settings Nurture students’ creativity—and their grasp on setting—with a fiction writing activity about a historical moment in the White House. Objective Ask: What makes a story • For students of any age: Students will write narratives, interesting? Have students brainstorm » Print and distribute The Places focusing on setting, and 1and collect answers on the board and Spaces of the White House apply the writing process (examples: characters who seem real, resource sheet as a cheat sheet. (planning, revising, and editing) to their work. intriguing settings, colorful details, » Alternately, print photos and humor, compelling conflict, etc). Focus descriptions of each room and Standards on setting (where and when a story takes post around the classroom for CCSS ELA, Grs. 6–8 place), and prompt students to explain students to choose from. CCRA.W.3 what it is. Come up with a definition Write narratives about Hand out the Craft a White House based on student answers and write it on imagined events with details Story activity sheet to guide students the board. and well-structured sequences 5in brainstorming and planning specific CCRA.W.5 Discuss why setting impacts story elements. Students may need to Develop writing by planning, a story. Have students consider conduct additional research on their revising, editing, and rewriting how a favorite novel would have gone room’s setting and time period. CCRA.W.7 2 differently if it had taken place in another Conduct short research projects Assign students to draft and room, country, or time period. For with focused questions revise in class or at home (set a example, how might Hansel and Gretel’s length guideline). Once their narratives Time story be different if they had gotten lost 6 are finalized, create a class book or 120 minutes in a castle...or in 2019 with GPS phones? invite other classes to “visit the White Materials How does the dialogue in a story about House” for a read-aloud publishing party • Access to the internet a fight with a friend play out if it happens in your classroom. (alternately, library time during class versus the cafeteria; or in for students to research) 1930 versus today? • Craft a White House Story activity sheet Tell students they will be writing Supporting All Learners • The Places and Spaces a story, and using a room of the To increase the challenge: of the White House White House during a historic time Instruct students to write two possible resource sheet 3 period as their setting. As they plan their endings, basing them on two different story, they should consider how setting, decisions a character could make at the character, and plot intertwine and turning point of the story. Increase the impact one another. challenge further by having students introduce a second White House room. Research: Students will research a few White House rooms—and what To decrease the challenge: 4they were like in a different historical time Have students “write what they know” period—to gather details for their story using a conflict from their own lives and setting. To kick off, show the classroom tweaking it for a White House setting. poster and discuss the floor plan. They can base characters on people in • For students over 13, direct them their own lives who don’t live or work at to bit.ly/WH-Rooms to see individual the White House. rooms (click on a photo to see a room’s details). Activity Sheet Name Craft a White House Story On a separate piece of paper, plan out the important elements of your story, like setting, character, and plot. Once you’ve outlined everything, start writing. Story genre Main characters Plot summary Choose mystery, fantasy, Write down a couple of Use the plot arc stages: 1 historical fiction, humor, etc. 3 words or images to describe 5 exposition, rising action, their character traits. conflict, turning point, Setting and resolution. Describe the specific Conflict 2 room in the White House You can expand on one Resolution by considering: 4 of these problems: How does the main • Room purpose, such as • Between characters 6 character fix the problem? public state dinners, private (example: one person Extra details you meetings, playroom, wants power over another) want to include: workers working, etc.