Subject: Social Studies
Lesson Length: 45 mins
Topic: Establishment of the State
Grade Level: 4
Standards / Framework:
Brief Description: Students will identify significant figures and understand why their state was founded and established.
Know Before You Start: Students should understand reasons why people migrate and/or emigrate to a new place.
Hook:
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Read and discuss the sample comic.
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Have students discuss and share reasons people move to new places. Ask leading questions to find out how much they know about why people settled in their state.
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Based on what they know about their own area or region in the state, have students describe why they believe people settled there.
Activity:
- Introduce the following vocabulary:
- migrate
- immigrate
- emigrate
- foundation
- establish
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Using the sample comic as a guide, have students create a three-panel comic showing:
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Panel 1: Significant figures or founders in the establishment of the state.
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Panel 2: Cultural background of the founding group(s) and reasons they settled in the area.
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Panel 3: Values and beliefs of the founding group(s).
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Closure:
- Create a gallery walk to display the finished comics.
- Discuss the reasons people settled in new areas.
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
- Provide sentence frames as needed.
- Print out the sample comic for reference.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
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Give students a KWL Chart.
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K - what they already know and can lead to the “Hook” discussion.
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W - questions they need answered to help guide them through the research.
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L - take notes on the new information while researching to help them create their comic
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Make a comic about Thanksgiving
Make a comic about the Age of Exploration
Make a comic about National Parks
Make a comic about The American Civil War
Make a comic about The American Revolution
Make a comic about the Farm
