Re: [LM_NET] New Lesson Plan: Creating a Metaphor for the Three Branches of Government

[BettyTX <bhamilt@HUGHES.NET>]

This sounds like a very interesting lesson. If you haven't heard the "TED: 
Ideas worth spreading" talk on metaphors, I recommend it. It's delightful.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_geary_metaphorically_speaking.html

Betty Dawn Hamilton (Using retired years to keep up with current events!)
LMS (Middle & High School)
Former Chair of Texas Association of School Librarians
Former Contributing Editor of "Profession" section, Texas Library Journal
Brownfield, TX
bhamilt@hughes.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Koeppel" <ckoeppel@DIRKSENCENTER.ORG>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 2:46 PM
Subject: New Lesson Plan: Creating a Metaphor for the Three Branches of 
Government


* NEW LESSON PLAN * CREATING A METAPHOR FOR THE THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT

During The Dirksen Center's annual Congress in the Classroom® workshop --
http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_programs_CongressClassroom.htm --
participants are asked to introduce the lesson plans, resources, and 
techniques
that have proven successful in teaching about Congress in their classrooms. 
A
past participant presented a lesson entitled, "Creating a Metaphor for the
Three Branches of Government."

Students will create a metaphor poster that completes this comparison: "The
three branches of government under the Constitution are like a..."  They 
will
also design and create an illustration for their metaphor, complete with a
brief written explanation of why the metaphor is accurate.  Each group’s
metaphor must have the features listed in the lesson plan.

Find "Creating a Metaphor for the Three Branches of Government" at:
http://www.congresslink.org/print_lp_metaphor.htm

Cindy Koeppel

The Dirksen Congressional Center

2815 Broadway

Pekin, IL 61554

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309.347.6432 Fax

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