Kaleidoscope,
USA - Grades 3-5
$35.00
It's 2:00
p.m. and you move into your social studies period where your
students sit with textbooks in hand, eagerly anticipating the
next chapter in U.S. history. If this doesn't sound like your
class, you're not alone. Your third- through fifth-grade students
are observers from afar, finding it difficult to relate to
the events of centuries ago. So, let them become part of history
- make them citizens of Kaleidoscope, USA and watch
U.S. history come alive in the classroom.
In Kaleidoscope, USA students live history and use economics, geography, language arts, science and math skills as they develop their community from a colony to a city of the future.
Kaleidoscope, USA is a curriculum unit that examines community economic development through the study of a fictitious community as it evolves from a proprietor colony into an industrialized community and eventually into a community of the future.
This unit provides opportunities for a variety of assessments as students make choices regarding colony sites, develop advertisements, write persuasive letters, participate in role play, predict the community of the future and develop land-use graphs.
The curriculum of 12 lessons is contained in a three-ring binder and includes two reusable maps.
Download activities for first lesson