At The School, children in third grade strive to become autonomous learners and independent thinkers through the study of "Me and My Country." Children learn about the unique cultures that make up our society as well as explore peoples' lives and experiences within the context of the central concepts of Society, Experience, and Justice. Looking through the eyes of the men and women who colonized North American, the explorers of this newly discovered continent, Native Americans, immigrants, inventors and enslaved people, children apply critical thinking skills in order to become more empathetic individuals.
Theme: Me and My Country
Grade/Theme Level Goals:
Identifies significant ideas, concepts, and themes and generates relevant questions to further understanding.
Validate knowledge, ethical values and aesthetic judgments through reasoned arguments
Uses primary and secondary sources effectively
Understands how prejudice affects the manifestations of justice in society
Explores technologies that have improved social and political conditions
Concept: Society Concept Questions:
How and why are societies formed and maintained?
What is a citizen?
How are democratic ideals expressed?
Unit of Study: Voices of a Nation(Goals)
Understands how the United States became a nation
Recognize that democracy can exist in a diversity of cultures
Uses primary sources and new media to demonstrate understanding of history
Unit of Study: Voices of a Nation(Questions)
How did the United States become such a diverse place in which to live?
How does the U.S. Constitution help people live better lives within the diversity of American society?
Topic of Study: Getting from Here to There(Learning Objects)
Class Constitution (collaborative project)
Lewis and Clark Journal Project (Individual assignment)
