Over Time
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.