One idea for a lesson is to take an object or objects students find interesting and curate a few enrichment links and activity choices around it. You could use the lesson as an opener, as an emergency lesson plan, as center activities, or as gifted differentiation or compacting options. Here is an example of one such lesson, based on a rotary phone my students find intersting. To see all of them, plus steps to turn them into gifted asssigments click here to have a copy of a Google Doc that you can then personalize as you wish: Curations for the Curious: Ms Gurthie's Office Decor Rotary Phones and telephone tech |
What you See: This was the actual phone I grew up with in my parent’s house in the 60s and 70s. Touch tone (push button) wasn’t available until I was your age and even then, this phone remained in my parents home as a working phone until the 90s. (Related: 911 wasn't available until I was a senior in high school. Before then we had to call a human called “the operator” and ask for help. I was once the switchboard operator for my college.) |
- The Evolution of Telephones (Ms Gurthie’s phone is number 17 in the slideshow) https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-evolution-of-telephones/
- 1961’s idea of the phones of the future (LOL) https://youtu.be/avHo0-qU8xo
- Switchboards https://youtu.be/xJ1fKFqt7qU
Now Your Turn:
- Make Your Own Phone
- Low-techy: paper cup phone https://youtu.be/3yqB2KFwJCo how does it work? (tell me the science
- Super-techy: plans to make a real working phone: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-cellphone-from-scratch/ (if you don’t have the cash to buy it all, at least you can see how)
This post on curations for rotary phones is intriguing! I love how you’ve explored creative ways to incorporate these vintage items into modern lessons or projects. The ideas for using rotary phones in educational or artistic contexts are both unique and inspiring. Feeling motivated to explore how retro tech can be creatively integrated into various projects or lessons!
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I am Lisa Gurthie the PD facilitator at Piedmont IB Middle School. She specializes in tech and arts integration, interdisciplinary, holistic education, and unschooling school to make it more real and relevant. One day I will modernize my "about" page. Check out the other blogs on this site for Lesson Ideas, Celebration of Good Teaching, and Piedmont PD
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