Individuals and Societies The Impact of Innovations  

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SOI: Global systems can experience revolutions as a result of innovations. 

Task Description 

G​oal  1. Create a timeline that shows the impact that at least 3 ​innovations ​from the Industrial Revolution had on a global s​ ystem​ of your choice.  
2. Demonstrate how ​innovations ​from your ​system ​are connected to at least 5 other global ​systems​.  
3. Make a prediction for how modern ​innovations w ​ ill shape your chosen ​system ​in the future.  

R​ole  Historical Investigator: Use your skills as a historian to investigate your research question and work with your classmates and your teacher 
to create a timeline that communicates the results of your research.  

A​udience  APIS community. 

S​ituation  The Industrial Revolution provides a historical and modern context for the exploration of how ​innovations​ change ​systems ​and can give 
us ideas about how ​innovations c​ ould change our current ​systems​.  

P​roducts  Research organizer and timeline. 

   

S​tandards  Criteria: A, B and C 

ATL Skills: Goal Setting and Transfer 

 
ATL Cluster  ATL Grade Level Objectives  Standard Met 

Goal Setting Consider, select and adopt a range of strategies for working independently and staying on  
task.

Academic Skill: Transfer Apply knowledge gained from one context to another unrelated context and identify new  
meaning
 
 Preflection: Create a new blog post of Weebly that answers the following questions:  
1. How you will use our unit ATL skills in this assessment? 
2. What evidence will there be at the end of this project that you have met our ATL standard?  
 
 
Criterion A: Knowing and understanding 
i. use vocabulary in context 
ii. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of subject-specific content and concepts, using descriptions, explanations and examples. 
 
Level 1-2  Level 3-4  Level 5-6  Level 7-8 

i. Recognizes some​ vocabulary.  i. Uses​ s​ ome​ vocabulary.  i. Uses considerable relevant  i. Consistently​ uses ​relevant 
ii. Demonstrates ​basic​ knowledge  ii. Demonstrates ​satisfactory  vocabulary, ​often accurately​.  vocabulary ​accurately​. 
and understanding of content and  knowledge and understanding  ii. Demonstrates​ substantial  ii. Demonstrates ​excellent 
concepts through ​limited  of content and concepts  knowledge and understanding  knowledge and understanding 
descriptions and/or examples.  through ​simple​ descriptions,  of content and concepts  of content and concepts 
  explanations and/or examples.  through​ ​descriptions,  through ​detailed​ descriptions, 
    explanations and examples.  explanations and examples. 
 

Task specific clarifications: 

i. Use all of our vocabulary words correctly on your timeline posts. 
ii. Demonstrate your knowledge and understanding our key concept ​Systems ​and our related concepts ​Innovations ​and ​Revolutions ​through 
descriptions, explanations and examples on your timeline.  
 
 
 

Student justifications:  Teacher Justifications: 76 

I. I think I can get 7, because I use all vocabulary words and relevant  You used a lot of our vocabulary and demonstrated substantial 
them.  knowledge of our content and concepts.  
Ii. I think I can get 7, because I demonstrates excellent knowledge and 
understanding of content and concepts through detailed descriptions 
explanations and examples. 
 
 
 
 
 
Criterion B: investigating 
i. explain the choice of a research question 
ii. follow an action plan to explore a research question 
iii. collect and record relevant information consistent with the research question 
iv. reflect on the process and results of the investigation 
 
Level 1-2  Level 3-4  Level 5-6  Level 7-8 

i. Identifies ​a research question.  i. Describes​ the choice of a  i. Describes​ the choice of a  i. Explains​ the choice of a 
ii. Follows an action plan in a  research question.  research question ​in detail​.  research question. 
limited way​ to explore a  ii. Partially​ follows an action plan  ii. Mostly​ follows an action plan  ii. Effectively​ follows an action 
research question.  to explore a research question.  to explore a research question.  plan to explore a research 
iii. Collects​ and ​records  iii. Uses​ a method or methods to  iii. Uses​ method(s) to collect and  question. 
information, to a ​limited  collect and record ​some  record ​often relevant  iii. Uses​ methods to collect and 
extent.  relevant​ information.  information.  record ​consistently relevant 
iv. With guidance​, reflects on the  iv. With guidance​, reflects on the  iv. Reflects​ on the research  information. 
research process and results,  research process and results  process and results.  iv. Thoroughly​ reflects on the 
to a ​limited extent​.  with ​some​ depth.    research process and results. 
       
 

Task specific clarifications:  

i. Explain how investigating your research question is relevant to our statement of inquiry.  
ii. Demonstrate that you are following the action plan by recording the date when you finish each step.  
iii. Use a variety of​ research methods​ and a research organizer to complete your investigation.  
iv. Write a blog post on your Weebly that reflects on the process (doing your research and using our ATL skills) and results (what you found out). 
 
 

Student justifications:  Teacher Justifications: 7477 

I. I think I can get 6, because I explain a part of research question, and I  Great job explaining your choice in research question. I think you 
describes a lot also in detail.  followed the action plan but you didn’t show any evidence of that. You 
Ii. I think I can get 7, because I effectively follows an action plan to  recorded a lot of great information and your reflection is excellent! 
explore a research question.   
Iii. I create a blog post, and to thoroughly reflects on the process and   
resultzz, so I think I can get 7. 

Identify Provide an answer from a number of Describe Give a detailed account or picture of a Explain Give a detailed account including
possibilities. Recognize and state briefly situation, event, pattern or process. reasons or causes.
a distinguishing fact or feature.
 
Criterion C: communicating 
i. communicate information and ideas with clarity 
ii. organize information and ideas effectively for the task 
iii. list sources of information in a way that follows the task instructions 
 
Level 1-2  Level 3-4  Level 5-6  Level 7-8 

i. Communicates the information  i. Communicates information and  i. Communicates information and  i. Communicates information and 
and ideas in a style that is ​not  ideas in a way that is ​somewhat  ideas in a way that is ​mostly​ clear.  ideas in a way that is​ completely 
always​ clear.  clear.  ii. Mostly​ organizes information and  clear. 
ii. Organizes information and ideas  ii. Somewhat​ organizes information  ideas.  ii. Completely​ organizes information 
in a limited way​.  and ideas.  iii. Lists sources in a way that ​often  and ideas ​effectively​. 
iii. Inconsistently​ lists sources, not  iii. List sources in a way that  follows the task instructions.  iii. Lists sources in a way that ​always 
following the task instructions.  sometimes ​follows the task    follows the task instructions. 
  instructions. 
 

Task specific clarifications: 

i.  
1. Create a timeline that ​clearly ​communicates how innovations changed your system.  
2. Make connections between your timeline and another timeline with ​clear ​explanations for how they are connected. 
ii.  
1. Organize/Structure your research around at least 3 innovations that changed your system and make a prediction for how modern ​innovations ​will 
shape your chosen ​system ​in the future. All this information should be organized/structured on your timeline. 
2. Organize/Structure connections between your system and at least 5 other systems.  
iii. Create a list of sources. 
 

Student justifications:  Teacher Justifications: 666 

Your slides are mostly clear and well organized. Your slides have a lot of 
text that is not in your own words though. This information must be put in 
quotation marks in the future so that it is not in violation of our academic 
honesty policy.  
Great job on your reference list. There are some small formatting errors 
though. You need to indent the second line of every citation.