News of the Past

Today, my group and I created a different version of our Current Events lesson in order to relate our cubing concept to our chapter, Thirteen Colonies, One Country. Though this lesson was not actually implemented, it was geared towards second graders.

We would have began by having a Voki introduce us as news reporters.

Next, we would have shown pictures of the following things that are currently cool before introducing a cool new thing called cubing.

               

 Cubing: Exploring a topic from six viewpoints!

After engaging our students, we would have slit students into six groups:

Description: 

After reading this article, you will describe what the article is about.

Association:

After reading this article, you will associate what you read with something else that you have learned about, either in the news, class, or in your personal life.

 Application:

After reading this article, you will write down how you can apply the message that you learned to your own life.

We would have then modeled how to do our cubing activity with the four following steps, using the description viewpoint with a different article. 

—Step 1: Read Instructions for your viewpoint, so that you know what you are looking for when reading.

—Step 2: Read an article.

—Step 3: Write your viewpoint as a title and then compose about 3 sentence from your viewpoint.

-Step 4: Tape your paragraph to our “Super Cool Class Cube” 

My group and I to create two articles, one from the British viewpoint, called Long Live the King!, and one from the colonists viewpoint, called Long Live the Colonists! Both articles revolved around the idea of the British taxing the colonists in order to pay for war damage. 


I have provided the link to the article here: 


Long Live the Colonists!

Long Live the King!

Cubing Activity Conclusion

We would have conlcuded this activity by having students share their viewpoints as they taped them to our class cube. Next, we would have discussed how it felt to have to look at something in a different way. We would relate the topic back to school, work, social lives, and personal lives. The end goal would be to get students to understand that being able to look at things from a different perspective is very important in all aspects of life.

After doing this, we would then do a compare and contrast chart between the two articles as a class to see class understanding as a whole:

Lastly, we would have students write a journal entry to see how much they understand the concept on an individual level. 

Overall, I think that this activity would be so much fun and would have been a great add on to our unit plan for field work!