Group+Mini+Lecture

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=Members: Owen Bernecker, Mary Blymire, Ellen Lippy, Danica Dowling Lesson Topic: State and National Symbols Subject Area: Civics and Government Grade Level: 5 Time: 1-2 weeks

1. Pennsylvania Standards:

 * 5.1.3.F:** Identify state symbols, national symbols, and national holidays.
 * 5.1.5.F:** Explain the significance of state symbols, national symbols, and national holidays.

2. NCSS Standards
Culture and Cultural Diversity

**3. Learning Objectives** After this unit, students will be able to identify symbols belonging to specfic states then be able to attach the symbols onto a cut out of the state. Students will also be able to identify United States national symbols and be able to create a glogster using 5 symbols and facts about the United States. After creating the cut out of the state and the glogster, students should then be able to explain why the symbols are significant to the specific state and why the national symbols are significant to the United States.

**4. Engagement** [|What is a symbol?]

[|What are some symbols you see everyday?]

5. Instruction
[|State Symbols] State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots, etc.

6. Assessment
Students will create a glogster with 5 United State national symbols. Students will also attach 5 state symbols to their specific state. These states will then be assembled together to create the UnitedStates and the national symbol glogsters could then surround the United States