Convergence
The Convergence icon invites students to think about the intersection of ideas and events and how they are tied together. This lens of learning helps students recognize the factors that occur concurrently and understand the resulting conjunction of ideas.
Curricular Examples:
- Argue the convergence of events, ideas, or people that led to the resolution of the main conflict in Macbeth.
- Prove with evidence the convergence of ideas and events that led to the American Revolution.
- Summarize the relationships that exist between paleontology and climatology that led to the field of paleoclimatology.
- State and test assumptions about the details and operations which converge in the solution of a mathematical problem.
Question Stems:
- How would a modern scientist illustrate the factors that came together to defend Alfred Wegener’s theory of Pangea?
- What emerging knowledge among scientists in the early 1900s led to Einstein’s theory of relativity?
- How would a sociologist prioritize the concurrence of historical events in a time period to defend a study of gender equality?
Task Statement:
Students will map the converging events that led to the creation of the internet using library resources and share their findings by designing an interactive timeline.