BASIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS: SPREADSHEETS, WORD TEMPLATE, NARRATED POWERPOINT

Name: Leah Quattrochi

Grade Level: 9th or 10th Grade
Content Area: World Geography or World History
Basic Productivity Tool Used: Sway & Forms
Standards Addressed: (Example: MCCK.CC.1 Count to 100 by ones and tens
See https://www.georgiastandards.org/Pages/Default.aspx)
SSWG2 Evaluate how the physical and human characteristics of places and regions are connected to
human identities and cultures.
d. Examine the impact of cultural beliefs on gender roles and perceptions of race and ethnicity as they
vary from one region to another (e.g., the caste system, apartheid, and legal rights for women).
SSWG3 Evaluate how cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of the
earth’s surface.
a. Explain why political boundaries are created and why they change (e.g., nation, state vs. nation-
state; political vs. ethnic sovereignty; the unrecognized states of Palestine, Kosovo, and Taiwan).
c. Explain the causes of external and internal conflicts among cultural groups, including but not
limited to ongoing border disputes and separatist movements (e.g., partition of India, post-colonial
Africa, and independence movements of the Scots, Kurds, and Basques).
Bloom’s Level of Critical Thinking:
Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating
Description of how to implement in the class: Describe what students will be doing with
spreadsheets and chart/graphs and how the learning activity will help them learn. Overview should
be a minimum of 2 paragraphs.
The instructor will present a multi-media Sway presentation concerning Adolf Hitler, his rise to
power, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust. The class will begin with a voting activity hosted by Forms.
The qualifications of Hitler, Churchill, and FDR will be presented without names, and students will
vote for the candidate they believe is most qualified to lead a country. The biographies are
purposefully skewed to make Churchill and FDR look less qualified so students can understand how
Hitler, a villain of history, could possibly have been elected to power. The Form will give students the
opportunity to participate in anonymous voting and then see the results immediately.

The Form will be embedded into a Sway that I will present. The Sway includes pictures to give
students a visceral experience of the Holocaust and the anti-Semitism that preceded it. The Sway is
more engaging and vibrant than a traditional PowerPoint, is multi-media, and can even be used
outside of the classroom in a flipped classroom situation or for students who missed class and want
to catch up.
Level of Technology Implementation (LoTi): What LoTi best describes this learning experience
and Why.
I believe this lesson is a LoTi level 3. The technology used (particularly the Form) puts emphasis on
critical-thinking and decision-making. Ultimately, the lesson is still teacher-centered, but technology
enables students to think critically. For instance, we will look at a series of pictures and discuss them,
a process enabled by the Sway technology. We will analyze videos as well. This lesson is a LoTi level 3
because the focus is still on the content, not on real-world application, but students are moving
beyond simple knowledge and understanding.
Description of the sample spreadsheet and graph/chart provided *: Describe what viewers will
see and how this spreadsheet will be used in class as an example of what students will create or as a
template they will complete. If you are attaching an Excel file or an online spreadsheet/graphing
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program such as Google Spreadsheet, you will also want to attach a .pdf so that those without the
software can access the file.
I am attaching the Sway with the embedded Form as well as the Form itself. The Sway will be
presented in a dynamic discussion/lecture activity and the Form will be used as an activator activity.

https://sway.com/yaGmOhIxjpIOBArC?ref=Link
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=5W7yRTTxnkO8k-
bH4z1hwjJkG7hcKMJBhCKNvdhzW4xUM1FUOU9RUFgyMjIxQkQ2TVdYOVMxUFI4NC4u
Other comments about your proposed spreadsheet/graph/chart activity: Anything else you
want to say. If you are using/adapting another person’s lesson, cite the original source.