Who+Made+America+Great?+Traveling+Back+in+Time

Who Made America Great? Traveling Back in Time Big Idea: A nations National Identity can be found by examining their founding documents.
 * Author(s): Nicole Lewis and Ashlyn Taylor **
 * Grade Level(s): 5th Grade **
 * Brief Summary: Students will be geocaching to discover key documents that shaped the United States. **
 * Content Areas: Social Studies **
 * ** NC SCOS Goals/Objectives: 5.C.G.1.3 Analyze historical documents that shaped the foundation of the US Government. **
 * **5.W.3.a,c,d**
 * ** Students will demonstrate a clear understanding of how to geocache: **
 * ** Students will Identify the importance of major Political Documents in shaping the United States. **
 * MATERIALS & PREPARATION: **
 * Copy of Historical Documents, Paper containing who, what, when, and why (for each document), graphic organizer, Garmin E-trex **
 * Instructional Activities: **
 * 1) ** To start the class: Play School house rock video: Constitution Preamble **
 * 2) ** Show images of 5-10 other important documents (Articles of Confederation, Federalist Papers, Anti-Federalist Papers, Bill of Rights, Louisiana Purchase, Emancipation Proclamation, Constitution, Deceleration of Independence) **
 * 3) ** Explain that each of the documents shown has historical importance on shaping the United States. **
 * 4) ** Explain that students will be splitting up to Geocache and find some of the documents. **
 * 5) ** Will need to fill in the graphic organizer for each cache they find. **
 * 6) ** Review what Geocaching is **
 * 7) ** Split students into Groups and ask them to assign jobs for each students and discuss how they will accomplish the cache discoveries. **
 * Clues to find the locations of our cache's: **


 * Location of Cache 1: I sit and watch as fans pass by me eager to watch some hoops. **
 * Occasionally, my view is hindered by someone who needs to re-coop. **
 * Location of Cache 2: Saylor's voyage through the deep green sea to me. **
 * A burst of light and then you'll see. **
 * Location of Cache 3: Behind the track a haunted house **
 * In a well hidden the size of a mouse. **
 * Assessment: **
 * Students will be traveling with a graphic organizer. We will assess the students based on how they fill in the blanks on their charts. These include- Document title, when it was written, who wrote it, and what surrounded the event.
 * Students will write a short narrative describing the events that occurred on their hunt.

Revisit the image slide from the instructions. As a class, ask each group to re-cap one of the documents they found. The slide has been modified with Document title, when it was written, who wrote it, and what surrounded the event **. **
 * Closure/Review/Summary: **