Adapted P.E.
- giant safety sign images (from Boardmaker or Google images) and make a Safety Sign obstacle course - following the orders of the signs (stop, bear left, yield, slow)
- go on an outdoor or indoor safety sign scavenger hunt
- have a patriotic parade
- have a Citizenship Walk, collecting pledges of hours of charity work (perhaps for Veterans) for laps walked (or rolled) around a track over the course of a week
- recycle basketball - shoot empty soda/water bottles into recycle bins
Life Skills/Vocational
- Survival Sign Matching
- Survival Sign Bingo (download from Adapted Learning)
- make the Pupcakes (link below under cooking) and deliver to an animal shelter
- sort cans, bottles and paper for recycling (part of the Rachel Carson and Citizenship lessons)
- turn in soda cans for a refund (in certain states) and use money to buy supplies to make care kits for veterans or troops
Sensory
- red, white and blue rice in a sensory bin (how to dye rice)
- fast music/slow music with instruments - play fast patriotic music and slow patriotic music (consider using a visualizer on a big screen to show the music as well) and have the student play the music fast/slow
Arts and Crafts
- dye rice red, white and blue and use to make shakers, mosaics and put in sensory bins
- America Crafts
- red, white and blue tie dye to make class shirts to wear on field trips/CBI/CBE or to use as smocks for crafts (cut up the back for easy on/off)
- DLTK USA Crafts
- make recycled paper
Online Activities/Weblinks
- Congress for Kids
- Ben's Guide to the US Government
- Ben's Guide to Citizenship
- Ben's Guide to the Flag
- Tar Heel Reader
- Liberty's Kids
- America's Story
- Kids Recycling Zone
Multimedia (Video Downloader Site) - For VOD (Video of the Day) or Friday's at the Movies
(Does some amazing soul want to make the You Tubes into a Classroom Suite Activity? Most You Tubes are also on Teacher Tube.)
- Schoolhouse Rocks - How a Bill Becomes a Law (You Tube)
- Schoolhouse Rocks - Three Ring Government (You Tube)
- Schoolhouse Rocks - The Preamble (You Tube)
- Fifty Nifty United States and Lyrics (You Tube)
- 50 States in Rhyme (You Tube)
- Animaniacs - Wakko's State Song (You Tube)
- Rocko's Modern Recycle Song (from SpongeBob) (You Tube)
- Reduce it Reuse it Recycle it (You Tube)
- Recycle Guys Music and Videos (free online)
- Learn the 50 States (teacher tube)
- American Tail Double Feature
- This is America, Charlie Brown
- Scrambled States of America
- Liberty's Kids
- School House Rock's Election Edition
Cooking
- All American Apple Pie (Crisp or Sauce)
- Cherry Pie with Vanilla Ice Cream and Blue Berry Sauce
- Red, White and Blue Jello Jigglers
- American Flag Cake
- American Dog Treat Pupcakes (great for a mostly NPO class!)
- Rice Crispie Treat Sparklers
- Make an American Flag - count out the stripes and stars (work on counting, 1:1 correspondence, patterns and shapes)
- Bingo Dauber Papers (bingo dauber papers are great for teaching 1:1 correspondence, visual spacial intergration and fine motor skills
Social Studies
- Create a classroom Bill of Rights and Classroom Citizen Responsibilities - make it look like the real constitution using coffee or tea (coffee and tea are, of course, wonderful multi-sensory experiences)
- USA Worksheet Set (with Maps)
Commercial Software
On Tuesday, September 8, 2009, President Obama will deliver a speech directly to students about education. Watching and planning some activities around this seems like a great extension to the Unique curriculum as well!
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