Design for Deeper Learning

Native Americans - research different tribes and their geographical locations. Show how their life was impacted by the land and vice versa.

We will be learning about early colonial america. We are using Mc Graw Hills social studies curriculum for 5th grade. I want to tie in the curriculum reading into this project as well. We are in Ch 3, lesson 3 is the new england colonies, and the salem witch trials, lesson 4 is the middle colonies and lesson 5 is the southern colonies. I would like 2 activities per lesson to do, as well as some kind of end project to wrap it up. I would like the project to be worked on though throughout the lessons. I am stuck on thinking of ideas that would go well with this. I like the idea of artifacts that the students could make to show how life was during the colonial times, I thought about incorporating some things like making butter, or doing stations where they would do an activity for each station. But I need more ideas and some kind of large project with activities built thoughout to do multiple launches.

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Students will study the cycling of matter through the lens of leaves changing colors and falling in autumn, decomposition of leaves into soil and related organisms, and carbon and nitrogen cycles. Include investigations like leaf litter examination and composting.

How big is space really?

Students will learn about the forces of push and pull and ultimately design a project that demonstrates these forces. After learning the fundamentals of push, pull and direction, they will learn about deeper functions like gravity, friction and direction.