<p> Title: HTF - World History- Unit 4b and Diffusion of Ideas and Systems: The Middle Ages in Africa and Asia, 600 - 1450- Impact of Tang and Song Dynasty</p><p>Essential Question(s): How did the Tang and Song dynasties impact the local area and the world, in the past and today?</p><p>Introducing the Lesson: Introduce with connecting impact of previous cultures/dynasties on the world (connect impact of Europe-Middle Ages and Spread of Islam and Islamic achievements). Explain how students will now analyze the impact of Song and Tang China on the local area, the region (SE Asia, like Korea, Japan, etc), and AfroEurasia through Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade routes.</p><p>Step-by-step directions: Day 1: Introduce to students, assign groups/topic, students research and create presentation with map. 1 Introduce lesson/topic. 2 Explain to students they will be assigned a group in which they will research and create a brief presentation that is 2-3 minutes max over their assigned topic and dynasty (political, cultural, economical of Tang OR Song). Share student directions and resources with students. a Presentation: a.i Analyze and describe the political, economic, or cultural (based on your group assignment) innovations of your assigned dynasty. a.ii Analyze and describe how these innovations changed society. a.iii Show on a map how and where the innovations spread to the surrounding region and the world. a.ivUse a map (choose either a paper map or an online Scribble Map) to draw on while you explain. b Presentation options: b.i Create a screencast or video: ● Use Screencast-O-Matic (http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/) or Screenr (http://www.screenr.com/) to record yourself drawing on and explaining a virtual map (like Scribble Maps: http://www.scribblemaps.com/) ● Film yourself drawing and explaining on a paper map (using your cellphones). Videos could be uploaded to YouTube directly from the phone or remind students to bring their cord to use the phone as a flash drive. 3 Separate students into 6 groups (3 Tang and 3 Song) ● Political ● Economical ● Cultural 4 Students work on reading articles to research (see supporting resources below), then create their map explanation videos. 5 Students turn in video to teacher by sending screencast link or emailing from phone/upload to YouTube and send link.</p><p>Day 2: Show presentations (20 minutes). Writing Reflection. 1 Introduce the reflective questions to the students. Remind students to be thinking about the questions as they watch the presentations. 2 Show student presentations to the class. 3 Have students type their reflections picking one of the following: ○ Which of these innovations had the biggest impact on your life and why? ○ How would your life be different without the innovations of the Tang OR Song Dynasty? ○ How did the Tang or the Song dynasty impact China as it is today? 5 Students turn in typed reflection to teacher (email, google docs, project share, etc).</p><p>TechFusion: Make sure when you implement this lesson in Tech Fusion, you upload student samples of BOTH the map video presentation and their reflection writings. The reflection writings are an essential piece of the lesson to demonstrate higher order thinking.</p><p>Supporting Resources: ● Student ○ Song Dynasty Articles: ■ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/song-dynasty.html ■ http://worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar519820&st=song ○ Tang Dynasty Articles: ■ http://worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar546350&st=tang+dynasty ■ http://www.ushistory.org/civ/9d.asp ■ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/582301/Tang-dynasty ■ http://totallyhistory.com/tang-dynasty-618-907/ ○ Screen capture websites ■ http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ ■ http://www.screenr.com/ ○ Maps website ■ http://www.scribblemaps.com/ Student Directions Essential Question: How did the Tang and Song dynasties impact the local area and the world, in the past and today? Directions: Overview: You will be assigned to a group in which you will research and create a brief 2-3 minute max presentation over your assigned topic and dynasty. After watching your classmates present their topics, you will be writing a reflective piece over the Tang and/or Song Dynasties. Steps: 1 Work with your assigned group to research your assigned topic/dynasty. Use the provided research links: ● Song Dynasty Articles: ○ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/song-dynasty.html ○ http://worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar519820&st=song ● Tang Dynasty Articles: ○ http://worldbookonline.com/advanced/article?id=ar546350&st=tang+dynasty ○ http://www.ushistory.org/civ/9d.asp ○ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/582301/Tang-dynasty ○ http://totallyhistory.com/tang-dynasty-618-907/ 2 Take notes on what you learn from the articles to help you prepare for recording your presentation. 3 Decide with your group your presentation format. a Use Screencast-O-Matic (http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/) or Screenr (http://www.screenr.com/) to record yourself drawing on and explaining a virtual map (like Scribble Maps: http://www.scribblemaps.com/) Share the link with your teacher. b Film yourself drawing and explaining on a paper map (using your cellphones). Upload your video to YouTube and share the link with your teacher. 4 In your presentation (2-3 minutes max), make sure to include: a Describe the political, economic, or cultural (based on your group assignment) innovations of your assigned dynasty. b What was the impact in China? What were the positive and negative events that resulted? c Show on a map how and where the innovations spread to the surrounding region and the world. What was the impact on the surrounding Asia area, and the world? d Use a map (choose either a paper map or an online Scribble Map) to draw on while you explain. 5 Submit your video to your teacher.</p>