Design Topic: History of Anaheim/OC Subject: History/Social Science Grade: 3rd Designer: Ana Baez

STAGE 1 – DESIRED RESULTS

Unit Title: Change Over Time

Established Goals: Students draw from historical and community resources to organize
the sequence of local historical events and describe how each period of settlement left
its mark on the land

Understandings: Students will understand that… Essential Questions:

• Communities change overtime • Why do people move to new places?
• Those people who lived before us have left their • How has my community changed over time?
mark on the land

Students will know: Students will be able to:

• Which Native American tribes resided in the • Create a timeline depicting the history of our
Orange County area local community
• How missions came to California • Compare and contrast what has changed or
• The impact of immigrants in Orange County and stayed the same
Anaheim have on our life today • Analyze primary sources to determine the impact
past historical events have on today
• Use maps to explain how the city was structured
and how the people lived

STAGE 2 – ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE

Performance Tasks:
G – The Goal for the students is to use resources
from the community (photographs and other
resources) and describe how it has changed and
the impact is has had on today.
R – The role of the students is to be historians
looking to inform their community.
A – The audience is other citizens of Anaheim and
Orange County, perhaps their peers.
S – The situation is you are a citizen of Anaheim
and you are participating in a community history
fair. You have been asked to create an
informational booth on the past.
Other Evidence:
Exit Tickets: What is one thing you learned today
that you are confident in? What are you still
unsure of?
Reading Response (My Diary From Here to
There): How do you think Amada felt when she
was in the process of moving?
Quizzes: Quiz on who used to live in
Anaheim/OC, what are the landmarks?
Mind Maps: Graphic maps used to compare and
contrast communities of the past, as well as to
present.
Timeline: Creating a timeline of the history of
Anaheim/OC

P – Students will work in pairs or trios to create a Maps analyzing/observations: Analyze a map of
how the colony of Anaheim was structured.
poster with the information they obtained and
present it to their peers/audience.

S – The final successful product will be a

presentation of the poster board and information.
Information will consist of a topic from the past
Source: Understanding by Design, Unit Design Planning Template (Wiggins/McTighe 2005) 1
Design Topic: History of Anaheim/OC Subject: History/Social Science Grade: 3rd Designer: Ana Baez

(i.e. Disneyland, The Anaheim Convention Center,

The Angel Stadium, other landmarks) and explain
it’s history, as well as its impact today.

Key Criteria (rubric for performance task):

ANAHEIM HISTORIAN

4 3 2 1
Had many details on Had many details on Had few details on Had very little to no
Poster board information information information details.
/ Content presented. All details presented. Not all presented. Not all
were correct. details were correct. details were correct.

Poster had many Poster had many Poster had few Had very little to no
Media / images. All images images. Not all images. Not all images. Images do
Pictures relate to the images relate to the images relate to the not relate at all to
information. information. information. information.

Made eye contact Made some eye Made some eye Spoke hardly at all.
Oral with audience. Spoke contact. Spoke contact. Spoke low or Constantly looking at
Presentation clearly and seemed clearly and seemed unclear and seemed floor or elsewhere.
well-prepared. somewhat prepared. unprepared.

Worked together as a Worked together as a Struggled to work Did not work as a

Teamwork team and everyone team and mostly together as a team team and no one
contributed. everyone contributed. and not everyone contributed.
contributed.

STAGE 3 – LEARNING PLAN

Summary of Learning Activities:

Source: Understanding by Design, Unit Design Planning Template (Wiggins/McTighe 2005) 2