"Cognativism" is the belief that it is how we think that is important in education. Advanced organizers can build the "scaffolding" for learning that can help us teach students how to learn and think. Advanced Organizers are a way to help students process information. With them we teach students how to organize the information that we are giving them. With the lesson Ive provided (as simple as it is) students learn the necessary elements of a revolution then in future lessons they are able to identify the causes of revolution inherent in the situation being studied. They already have a framework to work from and can identify where possible causes may lie. To my thinking Advanced Organizers may be most effective on a concept by concept basis rather than on a lesson by lesson basis. 

Sources

Learning Theories--Synthesis and Comparison. Retrieved March 19,2003 from http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~yangyc/index/theory/basic/basic_cognitivism.html

England(2003)Educ  525: Theorys of Learning. Retrived March 19, 2003 from http://ed.swau.edu/England/theories_learning/assignment_4.htm

Joyce, B., Weil, M., & Calhoun, E.  2000.  Models of Teaching.  Needham     Heights, MA: Pearson Education Company.

The Lesson:

The advanced organizer will be used to discuss the factors that lead to revolutions.  Almost all revolutions have the same types of causes namely, economic problems, social problems and governmental abuse. Then for each revolution that is discussed throughout the year (Mexican revolution, English civil war, French revolution, American revolutionary war) the same advanced organizer will be used. Students will fill in specific details that fit into each of the areas involved.