Post on 13-Jan-2016
Creating a Community: From Land Property to Intellectual Property
iKeepSafeGrade 3 Unit
Unit Overview
People settle in areas where they think they can survive and build a community. They may own land or personal property. They can also create things that they then own, and can share or sell them; these may be inventions or creative expressions of ideas (intellectual property). Laws made by the community to protect property. As a creator, students can share their intellectual property; they are modeling how to create, share, and play fair.
A. Land!
What does your region look like?
• What physical features do you see here? http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/us.htm
• Based on the land, where would you like to live? Why?
• How does this map compare to Google Earth’s map?
Primary versus Secondary Sources
• Primary source: Based on first-hand experience
What is an example?
• Secondary source:Based on other sources
What is an example?
Settling the Land
• How do homes reflect the geography?http://www.ducksters.com/history/native_american_homes.phphttp://www.ducksters.com/history/westward_expansion/log_cabin.php
• Settlers could put a claim on land, and say they owned it; it was their property.
• Land owners can share and sell their land.
Who owns land now?
• If you saw an empty house or an empty lot, could you just live there? What do you think would happen?
• Property laws protect land ownership.
ASPECTS OF PROPERTY
NOTES INFORMATION SOURCE TITLE
INFORMATION SOURCE URL PRIMARY OR SECONDARY SOURCE? WHY
Land features Flat land, water, green Southern California. Color Landform Atlas of the United States
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/maps1/ca_south.gif
Primary: made from satellite
Resources Crops, dairy products, fish, lumber, metal
California economy. Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/us/california-economy.html
Secondar y: encycloped gathering facts
Craft or invention
Food, furniture, pottery, boats California economy. Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/us/california-economy.html
Secondary: encycloped gathering facts
Creative expression
Song about California: includes, guitar, drums
California sunshine. Internet Archive
http://archive.org/details/california_sunshine Primary: recording of singer
B. Resources and Personal Property
Resource Use
• How were resources used by settlers?http://www.ducksters.com/history/westward_expansion/daily_life_on_the_frontier.php
• Settlers could share and sell the things they raised, such as cattle, because it was considered personal property.
• Laws protect personal property.
What is one thing YOU own?
• What ownership rights do you have?• Should you take someone else’s things?• What are good ways to share?• Play fair!
Encyclopedias for Research
• Encyclopedias gather and organize all kind of information for easy use
• http://www.FactMonster.com• Sometimes to access an encyclopedia you
have to subscribe to it.
C. Using Resources to Create
Creating Things
• What might settlers create?http://video.pbs.org/video/2090790934http://archive.org/details/CEP145http://www.zoomschool.com/inventors/
• A patent gives a person the right to make, use and sell his/her invention.
What might YOU create?
• What are examples of personal property that one might create?
• What can YOU do to play fair with people’s property and things they create?
D. Expressing Oneself Creatively
People like to express themselves
• How might settlers express themselves creatively? http://archive.org/details/TexasFolkSongs
• We don’t know who created folk tales and folks songs. They are in the public domain.
• If you RECORD your creative expression, it can be copyrighted: ©
• It is intellectual property.
Copyright and Folktales
• People can create and record original interpretations of folk expressions – they can be copyrighted
• http://www.worldoftales.com/folktales.html• http://www.mightybook.com/• http://www.americanfolklore.net/sindex.html • http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.htmlhttp
://en.childrenslibrary.org/
How do the URL/domain address endings differ?
• Com= commercial (they try to make money)• Net = network (it could be commercial)• Org = organization (usually not for profit, and
established to link people with similar interests)
• Edu = education
http://pbskids.org/shareastory/
• How do you share a creation on this website?• What might be a good thing about sharing
your creation?• What might be a bad thing about sharing your
creation?• What are some good rules about sharing?• Do you feel comfortable using that website to
share your original work?
Be a Creator!
• Access resources to inspire you.• Create an original work, citing your sources
that other people shared with you.• Decide how you want to share your original
work.• That’s how to play fair!