Quest of the Consitution

Today my group and I taught the 5th grade social studies class using an inquiry approach. We started off with a Kahoot! game to review/ see what the students learned/remembered from our last lesson. The students love Kahoot! It is a very competitive game but it is a great way to keep the students engaged and to see what they know. Surprisingly out of 8 questions the whole class only got 2 wrong!

Then we moved onto the students' web quest task. The students' task is to complete a WebQuest on the Constitution, after completing it they are to write an article for the school newspaper to people who do not know what the Constitution is. Click on WebQuest to view the site!
We provided a WebQuest Research worksheet with questions that they are to answering using the resources/article on the resource tab.



Once they finished their WebQuest worksheet they started their news article. I was very impressed with the students' articles! One student from each group shared their article with the class. They were actually really excited to read out loud!


I enjoyed the concept of this lesson plan, but as always when creating a lesson plan that strictly uses technology there is always going to be a technical difficulty. And, of course, there was but we all stayed very calm and worked through it. We went around to each group, triple checking with each student to make sure everyone was getting logged into "Google Classroom" and were accessing the WebQuest website. 

By the end of the lesson, hearing the articles that the students shared made me proud to see how much these 5th graders were learning from what my group and I are teaching!