This past week we were beginning to finish up chapter one in our Social Studies book. To test our second and third graders and see what they had learned about Michigan, students were arranged in pairs and were given the task of creating a new Michigan state flag.
Students already know what our state flag currently looks like and they were given artistic license to create a new flag which would properly represent our state. The only directive the students were given was to make sure that everything they drew on their flag needed to somehow represent Michigan (so no hearts or random drawings were seen on their flags). :)
Once partner pairs finished their flags, each pair stood in front of the class and presented their flag, listing the things drawn on their Michigan flags and explaining why they drew the different objects on their flags. I was extremely impressed with how students demonstrated the things that they learned about Michigan throughout this activity!
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