Great Flights and Flyers of Floyd Bennett Field
Stage 1- Desired ResultsTransfer
Students will be able to use deduction and analytical skills to uncover an undercurrent in society that emerges as a backdrop to economic and political austerity such as escapism. (No matter how bad your life is, if your favorite team wins the championship, somehow though the circumstances of your life haven’t changed, you feel better.
Content Standards:
Standards for Common Core (as listed in the NYCDOE websites)
ELA standards for grades 6-12)
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading: 1, 2,3,4,7,8,9,11
Reading Standards for Informational Text 6-12: 1,2,3,4, 7,8,9
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing: 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10, 11
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening: 1,2,3,4,5,6
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Language: 1,2,3,4,6
Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects 6-12
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for reading: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing: 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Speaking and Listening: 1,2,3,4,5,6
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Time: 45 minutes
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Understandings:
The lesson will bridge the aviation past of Floyd Bennett Field as an important period of history and its relationship to early 20th century American Flyers. / Essential Questions:
What role did Floyd Bennett Field play in the development of aviation?
Student will know…
· FBF was on the cutting edge of competitive flying and aviation technology
· That dozens of record breaking flights took place at FBF either commencing or concluding there. / Student will be able to
· Recognize some of the famous pioneers of aviation who were regulars such as Wiley Post, Howard Hughes and Jackie Cochran
· Fill in a gap of history students are usually not exposed
Stage 2- Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks:
· Using documents of the period the students will work in groups (likened to a newspaper staff) and create opinions based on biographies of famous aviators associate with FBF
· Homework assignment is to find a historical artifact relating to one of their contemporary heroes and answer specific questions. / Other Evidence:
Self-Assessments
Students will complete a rubric on group work and class participation / Other Evidence, Summarized
Stage 3 Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
· This being Lesson 2, students are familiar with the basic history of NYC and use this in their lessons
· Mini-lesson introducing the students to the 1930’s and elicit information pertaining to that era
· Using documents the students will break into groups and work together to form an opinion about the era and its heroes
· Homework assignment linking the history lesson into the present by transferring a commonality, heroes through time.
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FBF- Lesson 2- 2013
Adapted from UbD by Wiggins & McTighe