Center for Technology and Teacher Education

Declaration of Independence

Assessment

K-12:

Have each group design one reasonable pop quiz question. Combine the questions to form a quiz administered at the beginning of the next class.
Have students write an essay in which they identify each of the key phrases covered in class and describe the meaning of each.
For the next class period, facilitate students’ role play of the founding fathers as they debated the Declaration before its publication. Distribute a rubric to students that illustrates how they are to identify and describe key phrases and make reasonable points regarding each phrase. Each student may choose to be a representative signed the Declaration.
For homework, have students develop school rules related to some or all of the key phrases covered in the lesson.

Methods:

Have each student in the class write one or two paragraphs describing whether or not this lesson will be useful and suggesting where the lesson might need adjustment given diverse student populations.

Center for Technology and Teacher Education, University of Virginia, This module was created by David Nicholson University of Virginia