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Understanding Government DVD Buy the Video
After viewing the program and participating in discussion, students will be able to:
- Describe the American Flag and what it symbolizes ;
- Create a classroom flag that symbolizes the shared values of their classroom
Lesson:
1. Discuss the shared values presented in Understanding Government. Ask students: What are some important American values? How did these values come to be? What rules and laws that help uphold these values?
2. Discuss the flag and other symbols of American values presented in Understanding Government. Ask students: What does the U.S. flag look like? What does it symbolize? What do the stripes, stars, and colors represent? What does the Lincoln Memorial remind us of? What are some other important American symbols? What do they represent?
3. Explain to students that, like the United States, their classroom is a community that has shared values. Ask them to identify some of those shared values. Are there rules about how you should treat one another? How should the teacher or other adults be treated in the classroom? What responsibilities do you have as students? Why are these responsibilities important and how do they help the classroom function? What are some freedoms or rights that students have?
Write the classroom values on a piece of chart paper and display it so students can refer to it later in the lesson.
4. Discuss the list of classroom values. Ask students: How do the classroom values compare with the American values in the video? Add any new classroom values identified during the discussion to the list.
Classroom Flag
Give each student a piece of construction paper and crayons, markers, or colored pencils. Tell students they will be designing a unique and colorful flag that represents all the classroom values on the list. Then they will write a paragraph describing their flag and what it symbolizes.
When the flags and descriptive paragraphs are finished, have each student share their flag and paragraph with the class. Compare the flags: Do any of them look similar? What did students like best about particular flags? Which flags seemed to best symbolize the classroom values.
Display the flags in the classroom.
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 Assignment Discovery airs weekdays at 5 a.m. ET/PT, 4 a.m. CT, and 6 a.m. MT on the Discovery Channel.
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