3rd Grade humanities
We will continue our unit on government structure and functions. This week, we will be focusing on government and citizen responsibility at the local level! Some of the concepts we will be discussing are government services, public works, citizenship, city councils and their role in our lives and communities.
We will be diving into these things using a project based learning activity. Learners will be reading an Alameda-specific news article and then taking on the role of one of the parties represented within it. Learners will then present a 2-minute presentation with their groups during our 'city council meeting'. Finally, learners will be developing and voting on a community service learning project as a class that will be carried out after spring break!
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We will continue our unit on government structure and functions. This week, our social studies activities and readings will focus on the three branches of the federal government (legislative, executive, and judicial), including the separation of powers, checks and balances, and how a bill becomes a law.
Learners will explore each of the branch's responsibilities, power over other branches, and roles of people who work in the branch. Learners will utilize their knowledge to illustrate and explain an aspect of one branch to create a classroom display of federal government structure. Additionally, learners will play a movement game where each aspect of information is assigned a different move. Learners will then explore how a bill becomes a law, work with a partner to identify an issue or something they would like to change about Nea. They will create a bill that outline the issues and a possible solution, and present their bill to the class. Learners will embark upon new writing and social studies units this week! We will return to informational writing in conjunction with our unit on the Constitution and the structure of national, state, and local governments. This week, our social studies activities and readings will focus on the Constitution and its three main parts: the Preamble, articles, and Bill of Rights/amendments.
Learners will refresh and build on their informational reading and writing skills by identifying key details, summarizing, and explaining the importance of sections, articles, and amendments of the Constitution. Learners will build their own class Preamble, and work in groups to create posters that explain a specific article or amendment, the reason it was written, and how it affects their lives today. |
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May 2018
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