GA 5th Grade Toolbox #5

CHAPTER 11
GEORGIA EXPERIENCE | GRADE 5 | UNIT 5
THE COLD WAR BEGINS
CHAPTER OPENER
Inquiry-Based Learning
1. Divide students into small groups.
Give each group a sheet of poster paper with one of these questions written on it:
• Why does conflict occur?
• Who should make the rules?
• How do beliefs impact actions?
2. Tell students to brainstorm possible answers to the question and to write them on their
group’s poster. Walk around and make sure all students are given the opportunity to share
ideas. Allow your students to have 10 minutes to work on this brainstorming activity.
3. As a class, discuss the questions and students’ answers:
• Start with: Was it easy or hard to think of answers? Why?
• Let groups take turns sharing their responses.
(Tell students not to repeat answers already said by another group.)
• As students share answers, write them on your whiteboard to create a
comprehensive list.
• Rotate through groups until all answers have been shared.
SAMPLE
4. Once you have finished your class discussion, tape their responses to a central location
so students may revisit their responses while working through “The Cold War Era Begins”
chapter.
5. Periodically throughout this unit, review the questions as a class and have students suggest
additions and changes to the original answers based on what they have learned. Have
students write their new responses with different-colored markers so that they will be able to
identify when changes were made to their original responses.
6. Review these posters and answers again at the end of the chapter as part of your review.
Use your classroom technology to customize how you do this activity.
• Students can digitally post their answers to a class discussion page.
• Groups can post answers on digital sticky notes, and you can consolidate them on
a single board.
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