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Drawing History – App Lesson

Description: This app lesson will develop middle school students’ American history knowledge and understanding.

Instructional Objective: Students will pick an American history event and recreate it in their own words. Students will present their recreation/explanation to the class. Students will then take a quiz on the events explained in the presentation.

Step 1: Students will become an expert on a specific event in American history through the videos and questions on Khan Academy.

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Step 2: Students will then recreate the event through illustrations, animations, and narration via the Educreations app.

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‎Educreations Whiteboard

Step 3: Students will upload their videos to YouTube to share with the class.

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Step 4: Students will create a 5 question quiz based on their Educreation presentation for their classmates using Quiz Creator.

  • ‎Quiz Creator - Take, Share and Publish Quizzes Screenshot
  • ‎Quiz Creator - Take, Share and Publish Quizzes Screenshot
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  • ‎Quiz Creator - Take, Share and Publish Quizzes Screenshot
  • ‎Quiz Creator - Take, Share and Publish Quizzes Screenshot
  • ‎Quiz Creator - Take, Share and Publish Quizzes Screenshot
  • ‎Quiz Creator - Take, Share and Publish Quizzes Screenshot
  • ‎Quiz Creator - Take, Share and Publish Quizzes Screenshot

 

Inspired by Abigail Becker