Technology+Rich+Unit+Plan

= Technology Rich Unit Plan =

Grade Level: **Fourth Grade**

Content Area/Course: **Social Studies**

Unit Title: **Our City - Kenosha, WI**

Length of Unit: **Three Weeks**

Time of Year/Month: **November**

Essential Question(s) around which unit is focused: ** What is the history of our city? What is so special about Kenosha? What does it have to offer citizens? **

After giving a //brief// presentation about the history of Kenosha... There is a Walmart, Sam's Club, and a business that went in. As well as many housing units.
 * Object: Students will visit the [|Kenosha County Center website]. Here, they will find information about what they can find at the center, events the center puts on, and other resources to find more information.
 * Activity: Use Google Earth to view a before/after picture of part of the city. [[image:KENOSHA.jpg width="589" height="417"]][[image:KENOSHABEFORE.jpg width="586" height="413"]]
 * Rubric:



Students will pick one landmark, museum, building, **or** historical site in Kenosha and create a Prezi on it. I will create one to show what the students have to include in their Prezi. media type="custom" key="24678128"
 * Object: Once students pick their topic, they will find a website that has more information on their topic. I picked the [|Kenosha Lighthouse]. I also used this website for more history on [|the Lighthouse].
 * Activity: Prezi on the Kenosha Pierhead Lighthouse
 * Rubric:

After creating a list of famous people from Wisconsin.... media type="custom" key="24680296"
 * Object: Students will explore the [|Kenosha, WI page of WolframAlpha] to gain more information about the city and its famous people.
 * Activity: Students will create a Voki from the point of the famous person they pick. I will show my example on Laura Kaeppeler, who was Miss America 2012.

Exploring Famous Landmarks: We will discuss famous landmarks in Kenosha.
 * Object: Students will explore a photo album containing [|pictures of the city].
 * Activity: After choosing four famous landmarks, they will edit and label the four photos of their choice, using [|FotoFlexer]. (All pictures were taken from the [|pictures in the city link.]

Tours of the town! media type="custom" key="24690136"
 * Object: Students would explore the [|Kenosha Area Convention and Visitors Bureau]. Here is where they will find out what Kenosha has to offer tourists.
 * Activity: Using Google Maps, students will create a travel plan if they were to be a tour guide for the city of Kenosha. They need to find at least four attractions and at least one hometown restaurant. They will input this into Google Maps and embed the route on their classroom website.
 * Rubric: