1. SUBSTITUTION Grade 7 Unit 3
Formative Performance Task 1
SUBSTITUTION
Topic Question: What role did geography and technology play in settlement and regional diversity?
Description of Formative Performance Task: You will watch a video to learn about the settlement of the Great Plains.
Steps:
1. Open the SeeSaw app.
Scan the QR Code to access the video ‘Every Foot in Sight Can be Plowed’ in SeeSaw.
Watch the video, paying attention to the information presented.
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SeeSaw
Discovery Education Video
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Teacher Name: Suzie Johnson School: IHS – Middle Campus Address: Special Considerations: If interested in using this, me to be a co-teacher. Will need iPads with SeeSaw app. Assessment: Whole group discussion

2. AUGMENTATION Grade 7 Unit 3
Formative Performance Task 2
AUGMENTATION
Topic: What role did geography and technology play in settlement and regional diversity?
Description of Formative Performance Task: You will label a map of the Great Plains.
Steps:
Now that you have watched the video, it is time to look at the region discussed.
Using the map in the Liberty Bell textbook on pages R2-R3 as a resource, label the map on SeeSaw.
To label the map, place the transparency over the iPad and use the draw tool to trace the outline.
Then label the rivers and cities listed.
SeeSaw
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Teacher Name: Suzie Johnson School: IHS – Middle Campus Address: Special Considerations: If interested in using this, me to be a co-teacher. Will need iPads with SeeSaw app. Assessment: Teacher will view completed map and will be graded.

3. MODIFICATION Grade 7 Unit 3
Summative Performance Task 3
MODIFICATION
Topic: What role did geography and technology play in settlement and regional diversity?
Description of Summative Performance Task: You will interview your partner to answer questions related to the video.
How did the geography of the Great Plains influence how people built their homes?
How did technology change the way people gained access to water?
What advantage was there in using the plows described in the video?
Why was it important to ‘harrow’ the land?
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SeeSaw
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iPad
Steps:
The student whose first name starts with the letter closest to ‘A’ will answer the first two questions while the other student videos their response.
Students will then reverse roles and the second student will answer the third and fourth question.
To video student response, use the following process:
Tap the green + at the top of the screen.
Select video on the next screen, tap the green camera and begin the video. Do NOT stop the video until the second person has completed their answers.
To stop the video, tap the red pause button, then the green check in the top right corner.
Preview the video and then tap green check mark. Select your student id and then the green check.
Your video is now on SeeSaw.
Teacher Name: Suzie Johnson School: IHS – Middle Campus Address: Special Considerations: If interested in using this, me to be a co-teacher. Will need iPads with SeeSaw app. Assessment: Teacher will review videos for accuracy of answers.

4. REDEFINITION Grade 7 Unit 3
Summative Performance Task 1
REDEFINITION
Topic: What role did geography and technology play in settlement and regional diversity?
Description of Summative Performance Task: You will view and comment on videos from students in other classes.
Steps (as written as student directives)
Open the SeeSaw app on the iPad.
Scan the QR Code to access the interviews.
Select a video from another class to review.
After watching the video, write positive, encouraging comment.
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SeeSaw
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iPad
Teacher Name: Suzie Johnson School: IHS – Middle Campus Address: Special Considerations: If interested in using this, me to be a co-teacher. Will need iPads with SeeSaw app. Assessment: Teacher will monitor comments on each video.

5. IMPACT SAMR Cover Sheet
Teacher: Suzie Johnson
Louisiana Social Studies Standard (include description):
Standard 3: The Expanding Nation Students analyze the impact of key events, ideas, and people on the economic, political, and social development of the United States from 1800–1850
Question from “Content and Claims” Here What role did geography and technology play in settlement and regional diversity? :
Task Description
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Suggested Technology
You will view and comment on videos from students in other classes.
Seesaw
iPad
You will interview your partner to answer questions related to the video.
You will label a map of the Great Plains.
You will watch a video to learn about the settlement of the Great Plains.
Discovery Education Video
REDEFINITION
Technology allows for the creation of new tasks that were previously not conceivable.
transformation
MODIFICATION
Technology allows for the creation of new tasks that were previously not conceivable.
AUGMENTATION
Technology acts as a direct tool for substitution with some functional improvement.
enhancement
SUBSTITUTION
Technology acts as a direct tool for substitution with no real change.