A Gallery of Greatness: Exploring the Scientific Revolution
| State | WV |    |
| Status | Ready for Users | |
| Stage | Public | |
| Subject | English/Language Arts Science Social Studies | |
| Author | Joseph Boutwell
Carmen Henninger Allyson McNaboe | |
| Description | This unit will explore the evolution of ideas from
Aristotle's "Natural Rest" to Newton's "Inertia" ideas and how this evolution is reflected in operas, plays, and philosophical thinking of the European Scientific Revolution. | |
| Grade Level | 9 10 11 12 | |
| National Standards | Science as Inquiry (National Standards A "Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry")
Content Standards (National Standards B "Motion and Forces") Science and Technology (National Standards E "Abilities of technological design") Science in personal and social perspective (National Standards F "Natural and human-induced hazards" - through discussion) Science in personal and social perspective (National Standards F "Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges") Social Studies: Understands how European society experienced political, economic, and cultural transformations in an age of global intercommunication between 1450 and 1750. Understands the economic, political, and cultural interrelations among peoples of Africa, Europe, and the Americas between 1500 and 1750. Understands major global trends from 1450 to 1770. Understands the causes and consequences of political revolutions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Understands the causes and consequences of the agricultural and industrial revolutions from 1700 to 1850. Understands how Eurasian societies were transformed in an era of global trade and the emergence of European power from 1750 to 1870. English: Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the writing process. Demonstrates competence in the stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing. Uses grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions. Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the reading process. Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies for reading a variety of literary texts. Foreign Language: Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of traditional ideas and perspectives, institutions, professions, literary and artistic expressions, and other components of target culture. | |
| Career Clusters | Fine Arts and Humanities Science and Natural Resources | |
| Keywords | European Scientific Revolution
Galileo Jean Jacques Rousseau Pendulum John Locke | |
| Lesson Plan URLs (new Window) | Unit Summary: A Gallery of Greatness
Lesson 1: Cope with a Slope Lesson 2: Hanging Harmony Lesson 3: "Classie" Criticism Lesson 4: Mastering Mozart's Music Lesson 5: "Locke"ing in Laws Lesson 6: Galileo's Motion that caused Commotion Lesson Summary: Student Studio | |
| English IGO or CSO | 10.3, 10.12, 10.13, 10.17, 10.22, 10.39, 10.51, 10.52 | |
| Fine Arts IGO or CSO | 1.21, 1.29, 1.22, 2.19, 2.20, 2.23, 3.14, 3.17, 3.18, 3.21, 3.25, 4.18, 4.25, 4.22, 4.29 | |
| Science IGO or CSO | 9.1-9.17, 9.19, 9.20, 9.22, 9.61, 9.93-9.95, 9.98-9.99, 9.101-.104, 10.1-10.17, 10.19, 10.20, 10.65, 10.84-10.85, 10.89-. 90, 10.92-.97, P.1-P.21, P.27-28, P.32-.33, P.35-.40 | |
| Social Studies IGO or CSO | 10.52, 10.54, 10.55, 10.63, 10.64, 10.67, 10.81, 10.82, 10.83, 10.85, 10.87, FLT1, FLT2 | |