Grade 01 Social Studies Unit 11 Exemplar Lesson 02: Inventions Bring Changes

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Grade 1 Social Studies Unit: 11 Lesson: 02 Suggested Duration: 3 days Grade 01 Social Studies Unit 11 Exemplar Lesson 02: Inventions Bring Changes

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Lesson Synopsis This lesson focuses on the life of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. The impact of the telephone on communication and society will also be explored. TEKS

The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) listed below are the standards adopted by the State Board of Education, which are required by Texas law. Any standard that has a strike-through (e.g. sample phrase) indicates that portion of the standard is taught in a previous or subsequent unit. The TEKS are available on the Texas Education Agency website at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index2.aspx?id=6148.

1.2 History. The student understands how historical figures, patriots, and good citizens helped shape the community, state, and nation. The student is expected to:

1.2B Identify historical figures such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Garrett Morgan, and Richard Allen, and other individuals who have exhibited individualism and inventiveness.

1.3 History. The student understands the concepts of time and chronology. The student is expected to:

1.3A Distinguish among past, present, and future. 1.3B Describe and measure calendar time by days, weeks, months, and years.

1.13 Citizenship. The student understands characteristics of good citizenship as exemplified by historical figures and other individuals. The student is expected to:

1.13C Identify other individuals who exemplify good citizenship. 1.16 Science, technology, and society. The student understands how technology affects daily life, past and present. The student is expected to: 1.16B Describe how technology changes communication, transportation, and recreation.

1.16C Describe how technology changes the way people work.

Social Studies Skills TEKS

1.17 Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology. The student is expected to: 1.17B Obtain information about a topic using a variety of valid visual sources such as pictures, symbols, electronic media, maps, literature, and artifacts. 1.18 Social studies skills. The student communicates in oral, visual, and written forms. The student is expected to:

1.18B Create and interpret visual and written material.

GETTING READY FOR INSTRUCTION

Performance Indicators

Grade 01 Social Studies Unit 11 PI 02 Create a booklet (accordion book) with three pages showing events from Alexander Graham Bell’s life and two pages depicting the impact of the invention of the telephone. Standard(s): 1.2B , 1.3B , 1.16B , 1.16C , 1.17B , 1.18B ELPS ELPS.c.1E

Key Understandings

One individual’s contribution may change a society. — How did Alexander Graham Bell’s inventions help people? — How did Bell’s inventions impact society? — What impact has the telephone had on our lives?

Vocabulary of Instruction

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Materials

White or yellow construction paper, 12 x 18, one sheet per group Yarn, one 36” length for each student Mobile phone 12 x 18 construction paper, any color, enough for each student to have ½ of a sheet

Attachments

All attachments associated with this lesson are referenced in the body of the lesson. Due to considerations for grading or student assessment, attachments that are connected with Performance Indicators or serve as answer keys are available in the district site and are not accessible on the public website.

Handout: Telephone Pictures Teacher Resource: PowerPoint: Alexander Graham Bell Teacher Resource: PowerPoint Summary KEY Handout: Bell’s Timeline Handout: What if? Scenarios Teacher Resource: Accordion Booklet KEY Teacher Resource: Performance Indicator Instructions - PI

Resources

None identified Advance Preparation

1. Become familiar with content and procedures for the lesson, including the idea that Alexander Graham Bell was an inventor whose inventions made a profound impact on the lives of people. 2. Refer to the Instructional Focus Document for specific content to include in the lesson. 3. Select appropriate sections of the textbook and other classroom materials that support the learning for this lesson. 4. Gather teacher-selected books to read aloud. 5. Print the Handout: Telephone Pictures. 6. Prepare Teacher Resource: PowerPoint: Alexander Graham Bell for display. 7. Draw the Teacher Resource: PowerPoint Summary KEY on board or prepare to display electronically. 8. Make copies of the Handout: Bell’s Timeline, one per student. Cut yarn in 36” lengths. 9. Copy the Handout: What If? Scenarios.

Background Information

Technology – anything invented by humans to solve a problem. Technology is the application of processes, methods, or knowledge to achieve a specific purpose. Scientists and engineers develop technology with positive outcomes in mind such as increasing production and improving communication. Products of technology including computers, telephones, radios, and scientific equipment affect human conditions. Many believe the influences are positive, but some consider the negative ramifications of technology. For example, citizens differ in their viewpoints of nuclear energy. Does it provide safe fuel, or do the risks of disaster override its potential?

Invention – a new device, process, or item, something new that a person makes or thinks of to solve a problem

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Born in Scotland, Bell sought a greater understanding of deafness by studying sound and the mechanics of speech. He was influenced by his father who invented visible speech, a code of symbols used to teach deaf people to speak. The younger Bell moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to work at the Boston School for the Deaf in 1871, but he quickly opened his own school. By 1873, he was teaching vocal physiology at Boston University. Bell understood the concept of the telephone by 1874, but was not successful in transmitting a voice message until March 10, 1876, three days after the patent for his invention was issued. He and partners formed Bell Telephone Company in 1877. He helped develop Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He assisted in founding the National Geographic Society and supported experiments in aviation.

Definitions courtesy of the Social Studies Center [defunct]. (2000). Glossary. Austin: Texas Education Agency. Biography courtesy of the Social Studies Center [defunct]. (2000). Biographies. Austin: Texas Education Agency.

GETTING READY FOR INSTRUCTION

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Last Updated 05/17/13 page 2 of 18 Print Date 06/17/2013 Printed By Karen Johnson, MIDLAND ISD Grade 1 Social Studies Unit: 11 Lesson: 02 Suggested Duration: 3 days INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES

Instructional Procedures Notes for Teacher ENGAGE – Telephone Pictures NOTE: 1 Day = 30 minutes Suggested Day 1 – 10 minutes

1. Divide students into five groups. Distribute a picture from the Handout: Telephone Materials: Pictures to each group. Students talk about the picture in their groups. Instruct students to: White or yellow construction paper, 12 x 18, one sheet per group Describe the picture. Tell how they think it was used. Attachments: Compare it to a current telephone. How are they the same? How are they different? Handout: Telephone Pictures (1 per group)

2. Allow groups time to discuss their picture. Students think of a question they have about Purpose: the telephones. Distribute a 12” x 18” sheet of white or yellow construction paper to each group on which to write their question. Each group shares their question and The purpose for this section of the lesson is to posts them around the room. introduce pictures of telephones from the past to incite curiosity about telephones and communication from the past.

TEKS: 1.3A, 1.3B; 1.16B; 1.17B; 1.18B

Instructional Note:

If available, show students old telephones.

EXPLORE – Teacher Resource: PowerPoint: Alexander Graham Bell Suggested Day 1 (continued) – 10 minutes

1. Read a book about the life of Alexander Graham Bell. Facilitate a discussion about the Materials: man who invented the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell (optional). Information about Alexander Graham Bell 2. Display the PowerPoint: Alexander Graham Bell. Attachments: 3. Facilitate a discussion during and after the PowerPoint. Focus on using chronology words to describe events in Bell’s life. Teacher Resource: PowerPoint: Alexander Graham Ask these or similar questions: Bell Teacher Resource: PowerPoint Summary KEY Did Alexander Graham Bell live in the past or present? Past (review meaning of past, present, and future). Purpose: Why did he become interested in speech, sound, and communication? His father taught deaf students and his mother began losing her hearing when he was The purpose for this section of the lesson is to learn twelve. about the life of Alexander Graham Bell and the What was his most famous invention? The telephone. impact his inventions have had on technology. What were some of his other inventions? A machine that would remove the husk from wheat, a metal detector, a breathing machine, etc. TEKS: 1.2B; 1.3A, 1.3B; 1.16B; 1.17B; 1.18B How did Alexander Graham Bell’s inventions help people? Answers may vary. How did Bell’s inventions impact society? Answers may vary. What impact has the telephone had on our lives? Answers may vary.

4. At the end of this discussion, focus attention on the dates on in the Teacher Resource: PowerPoint: Alexander Graham Bell

If we want to know about the year Alexander Graham Bell was born, where do we look on the date? If we want to know the month he was born, where do we look? If we want to know the day, where do we look? If we know his family moved to Canada in 1870, how old was he? How do we find that out?

EXPLAIN – Bell’s Timeline Suggested Day 1 (continued) – 10 minutes

1. Distribute the Handout: Bell’s Timeline (1 per student). Students cut out the Materials: telephones and the speech bubbles. Punch holes on either side of the speech bubbles using circles for guides. Distribute yarn. Assist students in stapling the early telephone Yarn, one 36” length for each student on the left end of the yarn. Place speech bubbles in order and then thread the bubbles Attachments: onto the yarn. Staple the cell phone on the other end of the yarn.

2. With a partner, students compare their timelines and discuss any discrepancies. Handout: Bell’s Timeline (1 per student)

Purpose:

The purpose for this section of the lesson is to place events from the PowerPoint in chronological order to

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TEKS: 1.2B; 1.18B

Instructional Note:

Keep the Teacher Resource: PowerPoint: Alexander Graham Bell available to students who need to use it as a reference.

ENGAGE – How Has the Phone Changed? Suggested Day 2 – 5 minutes

1. Display an actual mobile phone. Ask students to brainstorm different uses of cell Materials: phones. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone the sole purpose was to talk to others who were a distance away. Ask: Mobile phone

What can we do with our phones today? Answers may vary, but with today’s Purpose: smart phones, there are a wide variety of uses for phones. The purpose for this section of the lesson is to Is a phone an example of technology? Yes understand the many uses of the telephone and how How do mobile phones help people work? Answers may vary. dependent we have become on the phone as a tool.

TEKS: 1.16B, 1.16C

Instructional Note:

Most first grade students have always had telephones in their lives. Many have only experienced mobile phones, cell phones, or cordless phones. It is important for students to understand that telephones have changed and have greatly impacted our lives. This concept will be more fully explored in Unit 12.

EXPLORE – What If? scenarios Suggested Day 2 (continued) – 10 minutes

1. Continue the discussion by asking these or similar questions about technology: Attachments:

Has technology changed the way we communicate with one another? If so, Handout: What If? Scenarios (1 per group) how? Because of technology we can instantly communicate with people all over the world using audio and video communication tools as well as written communication. Purpose: Has technology changed the way we work? Tasks that took a great deal of time The purpose for this section of the lesson is to in the past can be accomplished more easily and more quickly because of understand the role of technology in the way we technology. communicate and the way we work. In the What If? Has technology made our work easier? If so, how is it easier? It has made Scenarios, students think about how life might be work easier because we are able to communicate; we can get answers from other different without the technology of the telephone. people more quickly TEKS: 1.3A; 1.3B; 1.13C; 1.16B; 1.16C; 1.17B; 1.18B 2. Divide students into four groups. 3. Distribute the Handout: What If? Scenarios (1 per group). 4. Students read their scenario and discuss with their group. Groups answer the questions on the cards.

EXPLAIN – Share answers with the class Suggested Day 2 (continued) – 10 minutes

1. Each group selects a speaker to share their answers. Each speaker reads the What If? Purpose: Scenario to the class. The purpose for this section of the lesson is to share 2. Each group tells the situation on their card and what they would have done. the ideas from each group’s What If? Scenarios with 3. Write “Impact of the Telephone” on the board or chart paper. Students think about the class. how life would be if we did not have telephones. Brainstorm how telephones help us. TEKS: 1.2B; 1.16B; 1.16C; 1.18B Write ideas on the board.

ELABORATE – Comparing Inventors Suggested Day 2 (continued) – 5 minutes

1. Remind students what they have learned about two inventors whose inventions greatly Purpose: impacted the world: Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. Ask and discuss the following questions to compare the two inventors: The purpose for this section of the lesson is to compare and contrast the contributions and lives of How were they alike? Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. How were they different? What inventions or ideas did each man contribute to society? TEKS: 1.2B; 1.13C; 1.16B; 1.16C As inventors, how did they display good citizenship?

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Grade 01 Social Studies Unit 11 PI 02 Materials: Create a booklet (accordion book) with three pages showing events from Alexander Graham Bell’s life 12 x 18 construction paper, any color, enough for and two pages depicting the impact of the invention of the telephone. each student to have ½ of a sheet Standard(s): 1.2B , 1.3B , 1.16B , 1.16C , 1.17B , 1.18B ELPS ELPS.c.1E Attachments:

1. Use Teacher Resource: Performance Indicator Instructions - PI to help students Teacher Resource: Accordion Booklet KEY achieve the Performance Indicator. Teacher Resource:Performance Indicator Instructions - PI

TEKS: 1.2B; 1.3B; 1.16B, 1.16C; 1.17B; 1.18B

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Microsoft. (Designer). (2010). Clip art [Web Graphic]. Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en- us/images/

(2013). A 1951 model 500 telephone. (2013). [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Model500Telephone1951.jpg

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(2008). Telephone wood case. (2008). [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TelephoneWoodCase.JPG

(2007). Picture of old nortel pay phone. (2007). [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:N233H-2.JPG

1847 1870 1873

Alexander The Bell family Alexander begins Graham Bell is moves to Canada. working full time born in Scotland. Alexander becomes on his He is interested in a teacher of the experiments. sound and deaf. speech.

1876 1886 1922

Bell and Over 150,000 Alexander Watson test the people have Graham Bell dies first telephone. telephones in their on August 2. homes.

Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3, 1847

in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a talented musician.

Bell is interested in sound and speech. With his brother, he builds an automated head

that talks.

The family moves to Canada. Alexander becomes a teacher

for the deaf. He tries inventing a machine that would help his students “talk.”

Bell quit teaching and worked on experiments full time. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell says, “Watson, come here. I want to see you” into a telephone. Watson, in the next room, hears him and comes in.

Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates his telephone across the country. He also gets married and starts his family. By 1886, 150,000 people have telephones in their homes.

Bell also invents a metal detector, breathing machine, and a photophone. He also helps to start Science magazine and the National Geographic Society. He dies on August 2, 1922.

Images: Microsoft. (Designer). (2010). Clip art [Web Graphic]. Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/

What If? Scenarios

There are no telephones. You need to make a doctor’s appointment.

1. How are you going to make the doctor’s appointment?

2. What could you do?

3. What if you can’t keep the doctor’s appointment?

4. How will you let them know you will not be there?

There are no telephones. You want to invite your friend to your

house.

1. How are you going to invite your friend to your house?

2. What could you do?

3. What if something happens and your friend can’t come to your

house?

4. How would they let you know?

There are no telephones. Your grandparents live far away and you want to tell them what you are doing.

1. How are you going tell them what you have been doing?

2. What could you do?

3. What if your grandparents were coming to visit?

4. How would they let you know?

There are no telephones. You are in the nurse’s office at school because you are sick?

1. How will the nurse let your parents know you are sick?

2. What could the nurse do?

3. What if there was an emergency?

4. What might happen?

©2012, TESCCC 01/18/12 page 2 of 2 Grade 1 Social Studies Unit: 11 Lesson: 02 Accordion Booklet Cut 12” x 18” sheet of construction paper in half lengthwise. Fold in half. Fold each end into the middle.

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1. To prepare students for the Performance Indicator, review and summarize Alexander Graham Bell’s life and the impact of the invention of the telephone.

2. Distribute ½ sheet of 12” x 18” construction paper to each student. Instruct students to fold it in half and then fold each end into the middle. This will make an accordion booklet. Refer to the Teacher Resource: Accordion Booklet KEY.

3. Students draw a picture of Alexander Graham Bell on the front cover and write his name. On the inside of the first, second, and third pages students draw three events from his life. Students label these three events. On the inside of the last page and on the back page, students draw two ways the invention of the telephone has impacted people’s lives. Students label these to describe how technology has changed the way people “work” and “communicate”.