Grade 5 Units of Inquiry    
                   
  Pass the Torch to Freedom            
 
Topic/Content
Activities
Learning Outcomes/Skills
     

1. Identification of the necessary climate from which a freedom struggle might emerge.

2. Able to identify commonalities between different rebellions and revolutions.

3. Indicates key facilitators in the freedom-struggle process and compares/contrasts leadership styles and effectiveness.

4. Identifies the main causes that led to and the key contributors involved in the American Revolution.

  5. Piece of the life and times of a great freedom fighter 5. writes a letter of protest about a situation in which
freedoms are violated
6. This has happened in your country and you need to write
letters to people outside of your country. You need to
include ...... and . .......
7. Debates an issue
8. Create cards for UNICEF
9. Write letters to Amnesty International
10. Act out King George and the Revolutionaries
11. Open Forum: all grade fives - discuss an issue on freedom
12. Invite resource people to talk about issues surrounding
freedom - i.e. UNICEF, Amnesty International
13. Students consideer issues of student freedom (school
related issues) and prepare and present a debate
14. Persuasive writing - join my cause!
15. students choose countries to study freedom - ie. Cambodia,
Thailand.
16. PowerPoint Project
17. Comic Strips of the American Revolution
18. Fictitious daily log of American soldier, French soldier,
etc.
19. writing of first-person accounts of the Boston Tea Party