SS.3.CG.2.5

This lesson will allow the students to recognize the symbols, people, and documents that represent Florida while analyzing primary and secondary sources. The students will explain how people perceive Florida based on the lyrics of the Swanee River, the Florida state song, and participate in turn-and-talk discussions about the meaning of the song. The students will conclude the lesson by writing an opinion paragraph about what symbol best represents Florida.

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This lesson will allow the students to recognize the symbols, people, and documents that represent Florida while analyzing primary and secondary sources. The students will look at the Florida Seal on the Florida state map and participate in a visual discovery of the Seal. The students will also read a text about three people who represent Florida and participate in turn-and-talk discussions about the text.

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Students will create a scratch presentation to describe and explain the symbolism they used to create their self-portrait seal from The Great Seal of Me Lesson 1. This is lesson three of three in an integrated computer science and civics mini-unit.

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This is lesson 1 of 6 in the text unit series for Father of the Constitution, A Story about James Madison by Barbara Mitchell. In this lesson, students will be engaged in learning about national and state symbols. In small groups, students will compare the national and state seals, the national and state songs, and the national and state preambles to their constitutions. The groups will use a graphic organizer to identify relevant details and summarize the information they learned from comparing and contrasting each item. Groups will present their findings to the group. The lesson will conclude with a group discussion about whether the school and the class have similar items to compare.

This unit of study is about the Father of the Constitution, James Madison. Through this unit, students will follow the life of James Madison, creating a timeline of events that led to the creation of the U.S. Constitution and the democratic government system still in use today. Students will research, develop an argumentative debate, and vote as they read the text. Students will realize that this process prepared Madison for the writing of the U.S. Constitution. Students will engage in the expository writing process to construct a Classroom Constitution that aligns with the school’s vision and mission statements.

This resource uses a book that is on the Florida Department of Education's reading list. This book is not provided with this resource.

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Students will discuss what they know about individuals who represent the U.S. or Florida and interpret data including important dates in the lives of these individuals. Students will use the data to solve one and two-step word problems in this integrated lesson.

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In this lesson plan, students will discuss the contributions of William Pope Duval, William Dunn Moseley, and Josiah T. Walls regarding Florida's government.  They will learn vocabulary terms about government titles such as governor, senator, congressman, etc. Students will choose one of the individuals, read a passage about him, and then work in a group to create a poster that includes a photo or drawing of the individual and at least five facts from the reading passage.  They can use that poster to teach the class about their chosen Florida VIP.

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In this lesson plan, students will read a passage and discuss the history of Florida becoming a state, completing a timeline of important events. The social studies curriculum contains a unit on the five regions of the United States, and the states in each region are briefly discussed. This lesson will go more in-depth about Florida when discussing the southeast region.

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Students will use an algorithm planning worksheet to plan a scratch presentation. Students will use problem-solving skills to propose possible solutions to coding errors in a scratch program. this is lesson two of three in an integrated civics and computer science mini-unit.

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Students will recognize the Great Seal of Florida and analyze the symbolism used to represent the state of Florida. Students will then create their own seal using symbols to represent aspects of their personalities. This is lesson one of three in an integrated computer science and civics mini-unit.

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In this lesson plan, students will learn about the history of the Great Seal of the State of Florida, how its components represent Florida, and how it has changed from the original. Students will also learn a brief history of the Seminole Indians in Florida.

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In this integrated lesson, students will create a program using block-based visual programming in Scratch to identify the similarities and differences between the 1846 version and the current version of the Great Seal of the State of Florida. This is part 3 of a 3-lesson unit.  

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In this integrated lesson students will choose to either create a Double Bubble Map or a Venn Diagram in PowerPoint to compare and contrast the 1846 version and the current version of the Great Seal of the State of Florida. This is part 2 in a multipart unit on the great seal of Florida that will culminate in a student created SCRATCH project.

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In this integrated lesson, students will explore and analyze the current Great Seal of the State of Florida. They will interact with a PowerPoint where they will identify the components of the current Great Seal of the State of Florida and the first Seal. Students will research the two seals and modify their previous labeling activity as needed. This is part 1 in a 3 part unit on the Great Seal of Florida that will culminate in a student created SCRATCH project.

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In this lesson, students will analyze a primary source photo and read a secondary source article about Josiah T. Walls, the first African American elected to the U.S. Congress from Florida.

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In this lesson, students will analyze a primary source photo and read a secondary source article about William Dunn Moseley, the first governor of the state of Florida.

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In this lesson, students will analyze a primary source photo and read a secondary source article about William Pope Duval, the first non-military governor of the Territory of Florida.

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Students will plan and write a Scratch coding program to explain how various elements on the Great Seal of the State of Florida represent Florida. After reviewing the various elements included in the Great Seal of the State of Florida, students will create a Scratch coding program that describes the importance of at least one element on the Great Seal. Students will be required to use at least one sprite, a background, narration, and any animations they choose in their block-based coding program

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Students will analyze a photo of the Great Seal of the State of Florida and investigate the significance of various elements included in the Great Seal of the State of Florida. Students will identify and create a drawing of various elements of the seal that help explain the significance of the Great Seal of the State of Florida as a symbol of the Florida.

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Students will identify the significant elements on the Great Seal of the State of Florida that represent the state of Florida and its history. Students will then examine the Great Seal of the State of Florida’s artistic aspects and create a watercolor drawing of it.

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Students will use their knowledge of Florida symbols, individuals, documents, and events to create a new state seal. Students will incorporate the study of various lines and quadrilaterals into their design. They will justify what symbols they picked and how they fit into the requirements of the project in this model eliciting activity. Model Eliciting Activities, MEAs, are open-ended, interdisciplinary problem-solving activities that are meant to reveal students’ thinking about the concepts embedded in realistic situations. Click here to learn more about MEAs and how they can transform your classroom.

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In this lesson, students will become fluent with recognizing U.S. symbols and documents. Students will play a matching game and at the end of the game students will be more familiar with historical figures, symbols, documents, and current government facts.

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Students will apply their understanding of place value to plot, order, and compare event descriptions related to key figures in history. The key figures used in this lesson are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, William Pope Duval, William Dunn Mosely and Josiah T. Walls. Students will make connections between using a number line to plot, order and compare numbers, to real-world careers that use timelines for historical purposes in this integrated lesson plan.

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This Grade 3 Civics Family Guide provides some ideas and activities to support civics education when at home, out and about, and in the community. The activities provided align to the civics learning benchmarks within Standard 2 at this grade level.

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