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Reflection Questions1. What will the world be like 30 years from

now?

2. What skills will students need to be successful in that world?

3. What would learning look like if it was designed around your answers?

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Did you know?• According to former Secretary of Education Richard Riley, the

top ten jobs in demand in 2010 did not exist in 2004.

• The U. S. Department of Education estimates that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs by the time they are 38 years old.

• The amount of new technical information is doubling every 2 years. For students starting a technical degree, 1/2 of what they learn will be out of date by their third year of study.

We can’t hope to teach them all they will need We do not know what they will need to know.

to know.


The value of knowledge has changed

• In the past, the acquisition of knowledge was requisite to professional success because access to knowledge was limited.

• Knowledge is widely available today- as free and available as the air we breathe for most Americans.

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Tony Wagner The Global Achievement Gap

How much you know is no longer a competitive advantage. The world no longer cares how much you know. What the world cares about is what you can DO with what you know. It’s about skill and will.

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21st Century Skills The 4 C’s

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• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Communication

• Collaboration

• Creativity and Innovation


Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Teaching problem solving is invaluable to children’s learning, confidence, and independence. Problem solving isn’t just common sense -students need to

be taught concrete steps to master the skill. Children need to be taught how to identify problems, generate ideas for solutions, and

courageously tackle the problem.

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Corporations need thinkers!

“The biggest challenge for our front-line employees is having the critical-thinking and problem-solving skills they need to be effective, because nobody is there telling them exactly what to do. They have to figure it out.”

-Karen Brett, Dell Strategic Business Development

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Think-Pair-Share

In your opinion, why are businesses reporting

declining critical thinking skills?

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Communication

The Pew Research Center recently asked a national sample of adults to select the skills most important for students “to get ahead in the world today.” Across the board, respondents said communication skills were most important.

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Think-Pair-Share

What changes in the last 40 years have altered the ways we

communicate? How has this been positive? How has this been

negative?

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Collaboration

The United States Department of Labor reports that teamwork is a top skill to master for workplace success. Employers desire workers who can communicate effectively, value others’ thoughts and opinions, complete assigned tasks, and sacrifice self interests for the best interest of the group.

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What do we call collaborating in

traditional classrooms?

cheating.


Creativity

“America is now facing the biggest challenge it's ever faced—to maintain it's position in the world economies. All these things demand high levels of innovation, creativity, and ingenuity. At the moment, instead of promoting creativity, I think we're systematically educating it out of our kids.”

- Sir Ken Robinson

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Divergent Thinking

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Age 4-5 Age 8-10 Age 14-15 Adults

2%10%

32%

98%

Land & Jarman, Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the Future Today


+ one more C Confidence

Confidence is not a personality trait. It is an acquired skill that

comes with practice!

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The Growth Mindset

• As research from Angela Duckworth suggests, struggling builds character. Failure breeds wisdom and maturity. We need to fail and experience discomfort, and over time, build a track record of demonstrated success.

• We need a safe places to fail and grow.

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How can we do it all?

Creative Problem Solving + Lessons from Social Studies =

MIND MISSIONS

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Creative Problem Solving

• Hundreds of published studies on proven effectiveness

• Destination Imagination, Odyssey of the Mind

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Why Social Studies?

• Social Studies offers the STORIES of people working collaboratively, communication, thinking critically and solving problems with perseverance and grit!

• We learn by example and experience!

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Mind Missions

• Content & Skills

• STEAM & Standards

• Language Arts & Social Studies

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TEACHER INSTRUCTIONS

Prepare Team Bags with the following materials:

! 4! Sheets of Paper! 2! Note Cards! 5! Craft Sticks! 6! Mailing Labels! 1! Paper Cup! 6! Straws! 4! Rubber Bands

Students may also use the following school supplies for the mission, but not as part of the final presentation:

MarkersScissors

Separate the Mission Cards for this lesson (found at the back of the binder), and add them to the Team Bags.

If desired, make copies of The Story and Reflection Questions in this lesson for use during class.

Familiarize yourself with the Background Information at the end of this lesson.

Group students into 5 or 6 teams.

Remind the teams about effective teamwork strategies from the HOW TO WORK AS A TEAM handout and the last reflection session.

Review the BRAINSTORMING GUIDE handout, and have the teams brainstorm the following topic.

TOPIC: List things that you think are unfair.

Pass out The Story to the students and read it together. This will set up the mission for the class.

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Pass out the Team Bags with Mission Cards inside.

Review the mission, time limits, and scoring criteria (listed below) with the class.

MISSION: The Liberty Pole has been cut down by the British, and the Sons of Liberty need to signal a meeting for tonight. Can your team create a Liberty Pole to announce the meeting? Don’t forget the red flag!

Set a timer for 5 minutes, and let teams plan without touching the materials.

Set a timer for 15 minutes and let teams work.

When the time is up, teams must cease working and present and measure their Liberty Pole.

• 2 points for each inch in height for the flagpole• 20 points if the flagpole is free-standing• Up to 10 points for the liberty flag • Up to 20 points for positive teamwork

Announce the winning team and place a Winner sticker for the team on the Team Triumph Poster. If there was an exceptionally creative design, acknowledge that team with a Creativity sticker.

In teams or as a class, review the Reflection Questions included in this lesson.

Sons Signal

A lesson on the Sons of Liberty and the Stamp Act

In 1765, the British government passed the Stamp Act. It created a tax that would help the British government pay for defending the colonists. The Stamp Act forced colonists to pay for a stamp that would be placed on all printed goods they purchased. Newspapers, playing cards, and marriage licenses all required the tax - almost everything that was printed on paper! The colonists believed they should not be taxed because they did not have people to speak for them in the British Parliament. Their slogan became, “No taxation without representation!”

The Sons of Liberty were small groups of businessmen and craftsmen that held meetings to protest the Stamp Act. One way they stopped the taxes was by making nonimportation agreements. According to the agreements, colonial merchants refused to sell the goods that were taxed. If the goods were not sold, the taxes would not be collected. Another way the Sons of Liberty fought the Stamp Act was by attacking British officials who distributed stamps and collected taxes. If the British officials were too frightened to distribute the stamps, colonists would not have to pay the tax.

The Sons of Liberty were plotting against their own government and they had to meet secretly. To announce their meetings, they built liberty poles. When a red flag flew from a liberty pole, the Sons of Liberty would meet that night.

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Sons Signal

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THE STORY

Raising the Liberty Pole


REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. Which team’s liberty pole was most successful/tallest? Why?

2. Which team’s liberty pole was the most creative solution?

3. What are secret signals that people use today to arrange meetings? How

do we send secret signals today?

4. Do you think the colonists should have protested the Stamp Act? Why

or why not?

5. Which team worked well together? How did they show good

teamwork?

6. How can your teamwork improve? How can you be a better team

member?

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Sons Signal

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MORE ABOUT THE SONS OF LIBERTYThe Sons of Liberty used a variety of methods to protest the Stamp Act. Non-importation agreements made taxes on British goods irrelevant. If taxed goods were not sold in the colonies, no taxes could be collected. Taxes were also difficult to collect because British officials were terrorized for fulfilling their duties. In August of 1865, an effigy of the new stamp distributor of Boston (Andrew Oliver) was found hanging in a tree. A mob burned Oliver's property and ransacked his house. In New York, the Royal Governor became so frightened of the Sons of Liberty that he locked himself inside Fort George immediately after he received a shipment of stamped paper. A few hours after receiving the official papers, a raucous mob captured the governor's coach and burned it. By 1766, many royal officials (including royal governors) were in hiding.

Sons of Liberty chapters spread. Eventually, Sons of Liberty groups were formed in each of the colonies. The various chapters of the Sons of Liberty began to correspond and develop a larger organization. Many printers and newspapers joined the Sons in their struggle against the Stamp Act. The efforts of the Sons of Liberty were widely reported in the colonial press. Ultimately, the reports served as propaganda for the colonial cause and inspired the American patriots. The activities of the Sons of Liberty in response to the Stamp Act were successful. In 1766, the British government repealed the Stamp Act. Celebrations began across the colonies and lanterns were hung in the Liberty Tree. But their victory was short-lived.

On the same day that the Stamp Act was repealed, the British government passed the Declaratory Act. It stated that the British government had total power to legislate any laws governing the American colonies. They exercised that authority in June when they passed the Townshend Acts which placed a tax on English manufactured items.

The Sons of Liberty organized new protests against the Townshend Acts. They intimidated customs officers, vandalized their homes, and hung their effigies in the Liberty Tree. Britain eventually repealed all the taxes except the one on tea. In response to violent protests by the American colonists, Great Britain sent more troops to the colonies.


Sons Signal

Stamps from the Stamp Act


Sons of Liberty, disguised as Native Americans, poured several tons of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act. The act came to be known as the Boston Tea Party. Similar incidents occurred in Maryland, New York, and New Jersey in the next few months, and tea was eventually boycotted throughout the colonies.

Tensions continued to rise between the British government and the American colonies. The Parliament passed the Coercive Acts and Quartering Acts to establish control over the colonies. In response, many American leaders, including prominent members of the Sons of Liberty, met at the First Continental Congress. The rights of the colonists

including the rights to "life, liberty and property” were clearly stated. On October 20, the Congress adopted the Continental Association in which delegates agree to a boycott of English imports, an embargo of exports to Britain, and the discontinuation of the slave trade. Heightened tensions continued until the colonists and the British were at war. Throughout the conflicts between the colonists and their colonial parent, the Sons of Liberty played a prominent role.

In 1773, the British Parliament passed the Tea Act to redefine the existing tax on tea and eliminate any colonial profit from tea sales. The Sons of Liberty issued and distributed a declaration in New York City formally stating their opposition to the Tea Act. They warned that anyone assisting in the Tea Act policies would be viewed as an enemy of American liberty. Three British ships loaded with tea sailed into Boston Harbor. The ships refused to leave until colonists paid import taxes on the tea. Instead of paying the taxes, the Boston

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Sons Signal

“Liberty, Freedom, Independence, Strength: The Liberty Pole,” by D. Michael Ryan, the Concord Minute Men Historian.http://www.concordma.com/magazine/novdec01/libertypole.html

“The Sons of Liberty,” by Donald R. Moran, Sons of Liberty Chapter.http://www.revolutionarywararchives.org/sonsagitate.html

“The Stamp Act,” by Ronald McGranaham, American Revolutionary War Homepage.http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/stamp.htm

“The Stamp Act Riots and Tar and Feathering – from Liberty, the American Revolution.”http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/popup_stampact.html

WEBSITES FOR MORE INFORMATION

IMAGE CREDITSRaising the Liberty Pole: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-807. Stamps from the Stamp Act: (top) Smithsonian National Postal Museum; (right) “Tax stamp, 1765”, National Archives and Records Administration. Satire of Repeal of Stamp Act: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-21264.

Satire of Repeal of Stamp Act


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Building Content and Skills for Success

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• Content -Language Arts & Social Studies

• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

• Communication Skills

• Collaboration Competence

• Creativity

• Confidence


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