Activities



=** 1. History Scavenger Hunt **= This scavenger hunt will be created using your textbook. We will use chapters 1-3 and you will need to create questions or fill in the blank sentences. The scavenger hunt needs to have 10 questions minimal and include information from all three chapters. After all the scavenger hunts are finished, each student will have to complete one of them.

=** 2. Create Our Own Communities **= Students will be put into groups of 3-4. After we learn about what a community is, students will create and build their own small town or community. Students will be supplied with different buildings, schools and items for the community. Students will have one week to complete their own communities.

= 3. Town Presentations = Students will be put in pairs and invent their own towns. This project will have two parts, the first part will include a written section describing the different things about their towns such as population, size, education, municipal services etc. The second part students will present their towns to the class orally using visual aids (Power Point, poster boards, etc.). The presentation should be 5-10 minutes.

=** 4. Create our own Latitude and Longitude Maps **= Before this project students will will learn about latitude and longitude. Students will be given maps of different towns in America. Using these maps students will have to draw lines of latitude and longitude on the map. These lines will have to be labeled so that any location can be identified.

=** 5. Make a Triarama **= Students will research in the library and at home different people who have invented or thought of different ideas that are used in America today. Then each student will create their own triarama that is either based on an individual, or something that is invented and used everyday.