The Over Time icon challenges students to look at the past, present and possible future of a topic to determine how it has been influenced or changed. Learners analyze something historic and make predictions based on present knowledge.
Curricular Examples:
Illustrate the steps taken by a character to learn a lesson in the story.
Design a graphic organizer showing how the actions of the past influence today’s laws.
Analyze how the original understanding of a mathematical principle has changed.
Investigate how a biologist studies the ways in which time effects living and nonliving things.
Question Stems:
How has the chaos theory changed the world of mathematics?
How would a meteorologist use data to communicate how time has influenced how people view climate change?
What aspects of the past have affected scientific innovation in the present, and possibly will affect it in the future?
Task Statement:
Students will identify a character’s attributes and describe how they have changed over time and will share their findings by writing and performing a dramatization of the original text.
