Traveling Caravan Entry #5
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Topic: Education
in Harmony
Today
we visited another Pennsylvania Historic Sight called the Old Economy Village
located in Amibridge, PA in Beaver County. This sight became popular because of the “Harmonists a 19th-century
communal society known for its piety and industrial prosperity” (PA Trail of
History Guide Old Economy Village – back cover). Most of what we learned today would go over the heads of my
first graders but I found the education in the Harmonist society quite intriguing. Discussion of education the in
Harmonists society will be the base of this lesson. (Content)
(DOK 1)
We are going to talk about how
education was in the Harmony society versus education today in the Line
Mountain School District. We will
discuss and compare subjects taught, length of day, length of year, what age
they went too, materials used. (DOK2)
Creative Activity
For the activity the students will
practice writing with a quill pen.
They will also do a venn diagram on writing. (DOK 3)
Students will then write a complete
sentence using the quill pen about what they learned in this lesson. (DOK 4)
Standards:
3.1.1.A5, A9; 3.1.1.B6; 3.2.1.A1, A3, A6
8.3.1.A, c; 8.1.1.A, C
You could also include writing on a slate, since that was probably more common in schools than writing with a quill. Also, you could compare writing with a quill with writing with a metal-tipped pen that still had to be dipped in ink.
ReplyDeleteRhonda has a good suggestion there. What are you comparing and contrasting in your Venn diagram? Also not so much of the Harmony Village would go over their heads as you might think. What does Harmony mean (music related?) What does it mean to live in Harmony? What does it mean to live in disharmony? Community and skills of getting along are very important in first grade.Also your weaving skills would be awesome to show your class--even if you made a video of you working your grandmother's loom and brought in a rug you made--introducing industry concepts.
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