History of Floyd Bennett Field

Stage 1- Desired Results
Transfer
Students will be able to independently use their learning to:Correlate the impact of technology on the development of land throughout their local environment.
Content Standards:
Standards forCommon Core (as listed in the NYCDOE websites)
ELA standards for grades 6-12)
College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading:
1-Read Closely to determine what the text says explicitly and make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text
2-Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas
3-Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text
4-Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical connotative and figurative meanings and analyze how specific work choices shape meaning or tone
7-Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words
8-Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a test, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence
9-Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take
10- Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently
Reading Standards for Informational Text 6-12: similar to above but more specific for each grade.
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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
Understandings:
This lesson is meant to showcase how this area transitioned from a provincial outpost to a manufacturing center, and then eventually an airport, military base and National Park. The juxtaposition of Manhattan and Floyd Bennett field is a relevant one because their development is closely related. / Essential Questions:
What role did Floyd Bennett Field play in the development of aviation?
Student will know…
  • Timeline-the evolution of FBF from Barren Island to a municipal airport, naval base, and eventually National Park.
/ Student will be able to…
Stage 2- Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks:
  • Create a Venn diagram to demonstrate the changes made to Floyd Bennett Field over time based on the slides shown
  • Students will do an assignment that predicts the future of their own neighborhood using two changes from the development of Floyd Bennett Field and NYC as a reference.
/ Other Evidence:
Rubric
Self-Assessments
Students will predict the future in a writing assignment that demonstrates technology and change over the next 50 to 100 years. / Other Evidence, Summarized
Stage 3 Learning Plan
. Learning Activities:
  • Students will be shown three slides of NYC from different time frames and asked to put them in chronological order.
  • They will then be asked to create A Venn Diagram demonstrating the commonalities and discordant attributes then and now.
  • Class will be broken into groups and given a set of photographs of Floyd Bennett Field and asked to identify the changes using NYC as a guideline.

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FBF Unit – Lesson 1 History - 2013

Format adapted from UbD by Wiggins & McTighe