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Summary and Objective
Students will understand that they can use the study of children's clothing from long ago to learn the difference between fact and opinion. Using six specific items from the digital collection on the American Centuries website, students will read the information for its content and then write fact and opinion sentences about the clothing items from the past. Students will share the information with the whole class.
Teaching Plan
Step 1.
The teacher facilitates a class discussion about fact and opinion. A fact is something that is true or has happened. It can be proven. An opinion is a statement that tells how someone feels or thinks about something.
Step 2.
Students click on the items specifically attached to this lesson to read about chldren's clothing. As an alternative plan, the teacher could also print out ahead of time the six items of clothing attached to the lesson. Children should look for what was different about clothing in the past from what it is today and how it was reused for other items.
Step 3.
The teacher models a fact and opinion sentence that she has created from the site. Students identify which sentence is a fact and which sentence is an opinion and why. For example, looking at the Child's Stays, a fact is: girls started wearing stays when quite young. An opinion sentence is: stays are dreadful.
Step 4.
After reading all the information, children write a fact and an opinion sentence from the clothing information that interests them. They will complete one fact and one opinion sentence and if time permits, write another one.
Step 5.
Studens will work with a partner to edit what they have written. They will rewrite and type their fact and opinion statements.
Step 6.
Students will share their information in front of the class. Classmates will decide whether the statement is a fact or an opinion and why. Students will design a bulletin board with the fact and opinion sentences and print out the pictures from the digital collection to include on the bulletin board.
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