Social+Studies

=Constitution Day - September 17th=

====Students are spending the week learning about our Constitution and it's importance to our nation. Our fifth graders used the Big6 problem solving model to discover how we would learn more about the Consitution. We determined what questions we had (task definition), which resources would be best to locate answers to those questions (information seeking strategies), determined where we would access the resources (location and access), how we would use the information (use of information), decide on a good way to share our learning (synthesis), and how we would assess the outcome (evaluation). We reviewed the steps of the Big6 completing a matching activity on the SmartBoard to assess our overall knowledge of the process.====

1st grade (Constitution ABC sort) []
====In 4th grade students examined some primary sources from the Library of Congress to get a first-hand look at George Washington's diary, a map of Philadelphia, Constitution Convention notes, ballot, and portrait, and a newspaper article from a Philadelphia newspaper. Students learned how to analyze these documents using a three-step process: Observe-Reflect-Question. Students discovered how difficult this task can really be! Here is a link to the primary sources we analyzed: []====

====Visit the National Constitution Center interactive Constitution timeline [] to learn more about our history and don't miss the //Schoolhouse Rock Preamble of the Constitution// video from SchoolTube.====

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