https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5 en-us 2021-04-26 02:38:27 UTC 2025-11-23 16:49:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Sarahchecketts https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5/wish/1457588214 I will be having students create a new country. As we learn about the founding of the U.S. students will be placed in groups and will be asked to write a Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, set up a voting system, a government, etc. This will be a unit long project that will culminate in a UN style debat. ]]> 2021-04-26 02:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5/wish/1457588214 Sarahchecketts https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5/wish/1457591342 Students will be posed the question "Was the Boston Tea Party and act of vandalism or activism?" They will form an initial hypothesis and then explore primary and secondary sources. At the end they will revisit their hypothesis and justify their reasoning on why it changed or stayed the same. ]]> 2021-04-26 02:40:22 UTC https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5/wish/1457591342 Sarahchecketts https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5/wish/1457594287 Students will use Ozobots to map the slave trade and show the impacts of the economy by programing the bots to follow the routes]]> 2021-04-26 02:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5/wish/1457594287 Sarahchecketts https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5/wish/1457596929 The class will be divided in half and they will debate as colonists whether or not the U.S. should declare independence. Students will have time to work on an individual and group argument then we will have a productive and fair class debate. ]]> 2021-04-26 02:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5/wish/1457596929 Sarahchecketts https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5/wish/1457599643 Students will research local war heroes and come up with a project for the community, or even just our class, to honor their service. Students will research the war they fought in and the impacts it had on our day to day life. ]]> 2021-04-26 02:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/Sarahchecketts/7e6sp12f327rzja5/wish/1457599643