1. SUBSTITUTION 7th Grade/Unit 1
Formative Performance Task 1
SUBSTITUTION
How do the results of the American Revolution impact us today?
Description of Formative Performance Task: You will watch videos and take notes on the results of the American Revolution.
Steps:
Watch videos projected to the class on the American Revolution linked to the right.
Take at least 10 notes per video.
After the videos, debrief as a class on the notes you took and discuss some of the major events of the American Revolution.
Featured Source:
Discovery Education
Freedom Flix
Featured Tech Tools: Computer with internet access
Projector
Teacher Name: Katherine Kershaw School: Maplewood Middle Address: Special Considerations: You will need to have internet access to be able to access the videos and a projector to display the videos on the board to all the students.
Assessment: Student notes

2. AUGMENTATION 7th Grade/Unit 1 Formative Performance Task 2
How do the results of the American Revolution impact us today?
Description of Formative Performance Task: You will answer multiple choice, true or false, and discussion questions based on the information given from the videos we watched on the American Revolution.
Steps:
Retrieve your assigned technology piece.
Click on the Safari app (iPad) or Google Chrome app (Laptop).
Go to
Click on Blackboard link.
Login to Blackboard with your given account.
Click on my class under your courses.
Once on my webpage, click on Websites.
Once there, click on American Revolution Nearpod.
This will take you to the Nearpod website. Enter in your alternate name given to you at the beginning of the year.
You will read and answer the questions given to you on the Nearpod activity. Do not skip questions or just click through the assignment, I can see all of your activity on my webpage.
Once you have finished answering all questions, hit submit. It will show you your results once you finish.
Nearpod
Blackboard
Featured Tech Tools:
Devices with internet access
Featured Source:
Teacher Name: Katherine Kershaw School: Maplewood Middle Address: Special Considerations: Teacher must have taken BlackBoard 201 to have students login. Students will have to have alternate login names prior to the Nearpod activity.
This is a link to the nearpod. It is a work in progress at the moment.
Assessment: Nearpod answers

3. MODIFICATION 7th Grade/Unit 1
Summative Performance Task 3
MODIFICATION
How do the results of the American Revolution impact us today?
Description of Summative Performance Task: You will create a multimedia presentation using pictures and recordings discussing the results of the American Revolution based on your prior knowledge of the topic.
Steps:
Retrieve your assigned iPad.
Open up the Shadow Puppet app.
Using the app, you will create a presentation using pictures that you have saved or using the Library of Congress link in the Shadow Puppet app.
You will gather pictures and create recordings with your group discussing what the picture is about while adding information from what you already have learned.
The recordings should be informative and should be answering the topic question.
Once the Shadow Puppet presentation is complete, you will save it to the Seesaw app under your class name and then your group name that has been assigned to you. All recordings have to be approved by me before they will show up on the app. Make sure they are completed and ready to be seen by me before you decide you are finished.
To enter into Seesaw, you will need to scan the QR code posted on the board to enter your hours class.
After you have uploaded your assignment, you may put your iPad back up where it goes and plugged in for the next class to use.
Featured Source:
Shadow Puppet
Seesaw
Featured Tech Tools:
iPad with Internet access
Teacher Name: Katherine Kershaw School: Maplewood Middle Address: Special Considerations: must have an alternate name for privacy, student nicknames have to be preloaded into the Seesaw app under the teacher account and each hour needs to have their own class on the app. If you would like to see the projects, you just have to me so I can add you as a co-teacher. I will also give the students a list of questions that they can use to be able to create the presentation i.e. what kind of government did the colonists fight for, etc. Assessment: Shadow Puppet presentations

4. REDEFINITION Grade 7/Unit 1
Summative Performance Task 4
REDEFINITION
How do the results of the American Revolution impact us today?
Description of Summative Performance Task: You will respond to other students’ work in another class as a way for everyone to get different perspectives of the topic.
Steps:
Retrieve your assigned iPad.
Open the Seesaw app.
Click on Student and then choose your assigned name.
I will assign you a class that I want you to respond to.
Once you have entered the class, you will watch different presentations and respond to them.
Your responses need to be about the content of the presentation, not what the design is. This means you need to decide if you agree with what they are saying and why you agree or why you disagree.
I will be grading you on your responses so make sure they are on topic and appropriate for the task at hand. The responses need to be at least 3 sentences long and adds to the conversation of the presentation.
You should only be commenting on the group’s project that I have assigned you.
Featured Source:
Seesaw
Featured Tech Tools:
iPad with Internet access
Teacher Name: Katherine Kershaw School: Maplewood Middle Address: Special Considerations: You have to have a Seesaw account with 1 class of all of your students. In that 1 class, I had each group name listed as a student as well so when the group uploaded an assignment, it will go under their group name. When you go in to comment on the other classes presentation, your students have to sign in under their alternate name so you will know who is commenting on which project. Assessment: Student responses

5. IMPACT SAMR Cover Sheet
Teacher: Katherine Kershaw
Louisiana Social Studies Standard (include description): Analyze important turning points and major developments of the American Revolution
How do the results of the American Revolution impact us today?
Task Description
Featured Source
Suggested Technology
You will create a multimedia presentation using pictures and recordings discussing the results of the American Revolution based on your prior knowledge of the topic.
Seesaw
iPad with Internet access
Shadow Puppets, Seesaw
You will answer multiple choice, true or false, and discussion questions based on the information given from the videos we watched on the American Revolution.
Nearpod
Blackboard
Device with internet access
You will watch videos and take notes on the results of the American Revolution.
Discovery Education, Freedom Flix
Computer with internet access
Projector
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.