Unit Web
Life in a New Nation

Drama: Students will partner up and create a short skit showing a conversation between Henry Clay and President Madison discussing their viewpoints about going to war with Britain. They will perform their skits for the class. 

Reading: Students will read books about Lewis and Clark’s expedition and create a project or presentation based on the book. 

Storytelling: Students will dress up as major people involved with the new government and tell about their lives and how they were involved in the new government or revolutionary war to the class. 

Music: Students will work in small groups to create a class anthem. They will first pick a familiar tune, then work together to write the words for the anthem. 

Science: Students will research the life cycle of a mosquito. Students will present their findings in a drawing with captions for each stage. They will then write a paragraph explaining why mosquitoes live in wet areas.  

P.E. Gross Motor: Students will play the “Thirteen Colonies Game”.  They will use their motor skills to correctly get sticks with the colonies names and correctly label the map with the sticks. 

Life in a New Nation: New Government after Revolutionary War

P.E. Fine Motor: Students will play the game “Jacks” and connect it to children who played this game during this time era. 

Art: Students will take newspaper clippings that illustrate several of the first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. They will paste them to a poster board and label each photograph or writing to tell which amendment it goes with. 

Math: Students will calculate how far Lewis and Clark traveled each month and day during their trip out west. 

Social Studies: Students will draw a map of the United States by memory and correctly label the Appalachian Mountains, the Mississippi River, and the Rocky Mountains with 5 out of 8 on the rubric. 

Cooking: Students will make homemade Cornbread. This will be related to how Lewis and Clark would have made food like this. 

Writing: Students will create codes of their own and answer keys. They will then write a coded message to classmates about the U.S. Constitution. This will be in reference to Madison and Jefferson’s coded writings.