Lesson Plan Page 

Grades:
            3-5
Subject:
            History

Purpose:   
             The purpose of these activities is to acquaint students with the guaranteed rights of the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence and how                              they effect their everyday lives.
Objectives:
            1. Locate and identify the Bill of Rights on the Internet.
            2. To understand the Bill of Rights and how it effects the students everyday lives.
            3. Become familiar with terms in the Bill of Rights.
            4. To read and understand the Declaration of Independence and to learn about Thomas Jefferson (the author).
            5. To understand the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence.
Resources/Material:
             Butcher paper, crayons
Activities and Procedures:
             1. All students will create their own Word Search and exchange it with another student to solve the puzzle.
             2. Students in groups of three or four, will visit a web site and will print out a copy of the Bill of Rights. They will be provided with butcher paper and
                 crayons so they can create their own Bill of Rights for School .
             3. The students will go on a web site I provide them with on my curriculum page and discover the author of the Declaration of Independence. They
                 will be required to write a two paragraph summary about Thomas Jefferson.
             4. Students will watch a movie, The Bill of Rights; protecting our liberty. As a class we will discuss the movie together.
             5. Students will choose between two books that I will provide them with so they can do a book report. The two books were obtained from
                 Sunlink and they are called Thomas Jefferson and The Declaration of Independence.
Assessment:
            A grading rubric will be my main way to check the progress of the learning of my students. A chapter test will be a second way to assess their
            progress.
Sunshine State Standards:
             Social Science - 3 through 5 grade
             Time, Continuity, and Change (History)
             Standard 4;  The student understand U.S. History to 1880
             Benchmark 4; knows historical documents and the principle ideas expressed in them (e.g. Declaration of Independence and the Bill of
             Rights).
Sunlink Resources:
             Falstein, Mark. Thomas Jefferson. New Jersey; Quercus, 1987
             Quiri, Patricia Ryon. The Declaration of Independence. New York; Children's Press, 1998.
             The Bill of Rights; protecting our liberty. Videocassette. Corporate Productions Inc., 1990.