Iowa History Connections Lesson Plan
Iowa History Connections Lesson Plan
Gary Neuzil
Iowa City West High School
Lesson Grade Level: High School 11 and 12th Grades
Lesson Title:Protests and Social Movements in Iowa: A Documentary Project
Essential Question:
What role does collective behavior play in how we interact with one another?
Lesson Abstract:Students will investigate an example of a specific event/protest or an individual within a social movement having occurred in the state of Iowa. A documentary style video will be produced by the students which will present their findings as it applies to specified sociological principles.
Learning Objectives:The student will effectively apply sociological concepts to an understanding of social movements and protests in the State of Iowa.
Iowa Core Standards:
SS.9–12.BS.2
Essential Concept and/or Skill:Understand the influences on individual and group behavior and group decision making.
SS.9–12.BS.5
Essential Concept and/or Skill:Understand how social status, social groups, social change, and social institutions influence individual and group behaviors.
Materials/Equipment/Websites
- Textbook: Sociology: The Study of Human Relationships (Holt McDougal, 2010)
Chapter 16: Collective Behavior and Social Change
- Rubric (see attachment)
Detailed Procedures/Questions/Activities
Students will be assigned textbook reading and participate in class lessons and assignments which will focus on the Sociological concepts and theories associated with collective behavior and social change. In particular the following concepts and theories will be emphasized and where applicable incorporated into their research and documentary:
- Conventional crowd
- Expressive crowd
- Acting crowd
- Mob
- Riot
- Contagion Theory
- Emergent-Norm Theory
- Value-Added Theory
- Social change
- Social movement
- Reactionary movement
- Conservatory movement
- Revisionary movement
- Revolutionary movement
- Life Cycle of Social Movements
- Agitation
- Legitimation
- Bureaucratization
- Institutionalization
- Relative Deprivation Theory
- Resource-Mobilization Theory
- Resistance to Social Change
- Ethnocentrism
- Cultural Lag
- Vested Interests
Each student group will be assigned a location on the Storify web page. Research material, analysis, and thoughts will be collected here by each of the members. This will allow for the organization and structure of the final documentary project.
Students are to investigate and research an example of a sociological movement or protest which has occurred in the state of Iowa.
- Identification of specific social movement or protest
- Background information leading up to the movement or protest
- Events
- Impact
The 5 to 7 minute documentary must include evidence in the form of interviews, primary documents, photos, and/or video clips. WeVideo will be the program the students will be using to complete their video production.
The specifics to the documentary and grading criteria are outlined in the attached rubric.