Content This lesson is to create critical thinking by applying the scientific method to connect to two like events in US or world history.
Benchmarks
Students will have to connect to related events in history by offering a reasonable and rational connection between two sequential components. For example connecting events such as the 3/5s compromise to the Civil War. This would be done by having the students hypothesize how these events paths are connected, the student following up this hypothesis by researching these events, engaging in connecting the two events and making a conclusion on their hypothesis.
Learning Resources and Materials
This lesson would likely be best applied towards a paper. However, the purpose of the paper is for the student to connect the two points using critical thinking, it is not a research heavy paper. Use of reference material will be needed however.
Development of Lesson
Introduction
This lesson is based on the student ability to reason. This is an exercise to develop this reasoning by applying it to history and civil movements. So providing the student prior knowledge of the causal event could be effective in allowing the student to gain confidence in drawing a connection.
Methods/Procedures
This lesson will be most effective as a paper written by the student. This exercise should be used to help the student gain confidence in their reasoning and understand cause-effect relationships.
Accommodations/Adaptations
The idea of the lesson could be lost if too much is expected of the student. It can be easy for this to turn into a research paper. Ensure that the student is thinking more then they are researching!
Assessment/Evaluation
Students will be evaluated on their connection of the two events by using augments connecting the two events and application of intermediate events or conflicts for emphasis.
Closure
This is a good activity for the student to follow the scientific method process and applying it towards social movements and historical logic.
