Historical+Reporter+4th+Grade

Grade Level/Subject:
Social Studies 4th Grade

**Contributing Teacher(s)**:
Nancy Tue Technology Teacher Kenwood Elementary Books about the Civil War Teacher to make an Edmodo account for the class. Kids Connect Ed Tech Kids Zone Cyber Sleuth Kids
 * Resources:**
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Content:
SPI 4.6.3.3 Read and interpret a passage about a political or economic issue which individuals may respond to with contrasting views (i.e., state taxes, federal taxes, slavery, Bill of Rights). GLE 0401.2.1 Continue to develop oral language skills necessary for communication. GLE 0401.3.1 Write for a variety of purposes and to a variety of audiences. GLE 0401.4.2 Collect, organize, and determine the reliability of researched information. GLE 0401.3.2 Write in a variety of modes and genres (e.g., narration, description, personal expression, imaginative writing, response to literature, response to subject matter content). GLE 0401.7.2 Use media to publish and present information.

ISTE Technology:
1. Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students: b. create original works as a means of personal or group expression. 2. Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students: a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts or others employing a variety of digital environments and media. 3. Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students: a. plan strategies to guide inquiry. b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and ethically use information from a variety of sources and media.

Introduction/Problem:
The students have found a time machine and are able to transport people from the Civil War era to today's world. The group will discuss the causes and effects of the Civil War. Essential Questions 1. How are people affected by issues of war? 2. Why are political issues a catalyst for war? 3. How does war affect the economy?

Procedures:
Working in small groups, each group will select a cause of the Civil War. The students will research different events from the Civil War from the perspective of a man or woman from either the north or south. The reporter will interview the the people via Edmodo.

Student Product/Work:
Through Edmodo discussion boards, the students will interact with each other to explain the war through different perspectives. Each group needs to visit the other disscussions and interact.