In closing this lesson the teacher will return to the KWL chart and with the students where they will finish filling out what they had learned. Students will create a web of everything that they have learned about that time period and the teacher will assess the amount of information. Work Cited Lindquist, Terry. Seeing the Whole Through Social Studies. Heinemann, New Hampshire.
Students know that religious and philosophical ideas have been powerful forces throughout history.
This lesson is designed to promote thoughtful participation and challenge students to present reasoned arguments before an audience. The students must analyze evidence, synthesize arguments, and propose their ideas in the form of questions, and make informed decisions. They will be working cooperatively and will become familiar with procedural justice. This lesson deals with a substantive issue, it is from real life, and it will help students make critical connections from past to present, and essentially rewrite history. This lesson is also meant to include the entire class, any students with special needs can be accommodated.