Today we have 8 classes participating in the first ever project of TWICE’s new project called We the Kids. This project was designed to help us meet our new Michigan curriculum for 4th grade. Teachers who used to do the Michigan Week Exchange project need videoconferences for their new curriculum.
The session I’m watching right now is between a class in St. Joseph, MI and a class in Alief ISD, TX in the Houston area. The project was open to TWICE members.
The classes start with an introduction about their area and get to know each other.
Next the classes presented their posters each section of the Constitution Preamble and explained what each phrase meant. The classes rotated back and forth sharing the phrases.
- Phrase 1: do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
- Phrase 2: establish justice
- Phrase 3: insure domestic tranquility
- Phrase 4: provide for the common defense
- Phrase 5: promote the general welfare
- Phrase 6: secure the blessings of liberty
After this, the classes took some time to ask each other questions. Teachers had the students prepare questions ahead of time.
Teachers used Marzano’s research based non-linguistic representations strategy to help the students understand the abstract concepts in the Preamble.
We hope more classes will take advantage of this program next time! We’re still trying to figure out when it fits best in the school year due to the changing Michigan curriculum.
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