Today's Classroom Activities :
Connect With Our Troops - Classroom Activity
Enhance your writing curriculum and build good citizenship skills with this community service project from Connect and Join. "Connect with the Troops" is a free portal with a wide range of resources to help teachers create class scrapbook pages in support of our troops. The pages can then be contributed to the World's Largest Scrapbook, to be delivered to U.S. troops in December.
Detailed lesson plans connect the curriculum to a study of patriotism. Lesson topics include The Big, Bad Wolf lesson for writing letters to favorite fairy tale characters, a Graphing Landmarks activity on national monuments, the Hometown Brochure activity and a web trip to The Library of Congress. Lessons cover standards, time needed, materials, detailed procedures, assessment suggestions or a complete assessment rubric. There are even suggestions for how to go about inviting a local congressperson to speak with the class.
Students can design their own pages or choose from the assortment of free 8-1/2" x 11" scrapbook-page templates available in PDF format. Students then add pictures and their own messages and decorations.
Printed scrapbook pages should be mailed to Felicia Robinson, Connect and Join, P.O. Box 5170, Columbia, SC 29250. Digital versions, in PDF, should be e-mailed to frobinson@connectandjoin.com
For more information about the World's Largest Scrapbook or to find out more about the Connect and Join classroom subscription for creating a class web portal, call 888-729-9828 or visit www.connectwiththetroops.com
