GA 8th Grade Toolbox #3

UNIT 3
GEORGIA EXPERIENCE | GRADE 8 | UNIT 3
INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING
ANTICIPATORY ACTIVITY UNIT OPENER
Inquiry-Based Learning
You will need four stacks of note cards. Each student will get one note card. Prior to class, label
each group of note cards with one of the topics listed below. (Write the topic only on the cards.
Do not write what is listed in parentheses.)
Suggested topics are:
Land (arrived in South Carolina and had to wait for land for settlement site)
Natives (while England claimed ownership of land, it was inhabited by American Indians)
Biological Issues (new diseases, heat, humidity, wildlife)
Strict Rules (no slaves, assigned plots of land, no Catholics or Jews allowed, no alcohol)
Begin with student workbooks closed.
Show students a brief video about the founding of Georgia, such as:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m67EL3C0CvI
Give each student a note card with a topic on it. During the video, they can take notes on the
card, but should leave one side blank.
After the video, have students with the same topic gather into groups. Their assignment is to
list possible challenges or issues that the new “Georgians” faced. (You can use the items listed
in parentheses by each topic to give the students some ideas, but urge them to be creative and
draw from prior knowledge.)
• Remind the students that the families were all arriving from England.
• Have students discuss what the lives of the immigrants in England may have been like,
and how they may have been unprepared for life in Georgia:
1. Crowded cities
SAMPLE
2. Limited land to grow crops
3. No Indians or wild animals to contend with
Give students 5-10 minutes to brainstorm and write their ideas on their cards. When the time is
up, have a representative from each group share the challenges/issues they came up with and
ideas for how colonists could have handled them. List each group’s input on the whiteboard.
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