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 * Taylor Blanton and Nick Stump**

**Compelling Question:** "How can using Web 2.0 tools help facilitate student analysis of the major concepts of the United States Constitution?"

__Classes Taught (and where to be implemented)__ Taylor Blanton- AP United States History Nick Stump- AP United States Government

Taylor Blanton teaches Advanced Placement United States History at Cardinal Gibbons High School, a private, Catholic school that is a part of the Diocese of Raleigh. Nick Stump teaches, among other courses, Advanced Placement United State Government at Panther Creek High School, a public school that is a part of the Wake County Public School System. These courses are made up of upperclassmen who are, generally speaking, have relatively high academic capabilities. Cardinal Gibbons classes last 45 minutes each, and meet every day. Panther Creek classes last 86-87 minutes each, and meet on a daily basis. Despite some difference in the courses, there is a significant amount of overlap in the content that is taught. Our lesson will highlight one of these shared subjects, the Constitution of the United States.

The PBI will be implemented independently in each school.

__Web 2.0 Tools (possibilities to be used)__ Glogster Prezi YouTube (CGHS) Facebook (CGHS)

__Academic Content (to be covered)__ The Constitution of the United States
 * Articles of Confederation: The Set-Up and the Let-Down
 * Convention: Structure of Government (Major plans of government, the 4 Compromises)
 * Ratification Connundrum: The Federalists versus Antifederalists
 * Bill of Rights
 * Interpretation (Strict Construction versus Loose Construction)

__North Carolina Standard Course of Study / Related Goals and Objectives__
 * US History**
 * ~ Competency Goal 1 ||~ The New Nation (1789-1820) - The learner will identify, investigate, and assess the effectiveness of the institutions of the emerging republic. ||
 * || **Objectives**
 * 1.01** Identify the major domestic issues and conflicts experienced by the nation during the Federalist Period. ||
 * US Government**

**Objectives** **1.01** Evaluate the theories and styles of democratic government. __Timeline__ Our goal is to be able to begin implementing the cooperative lessons in the next two weeks. We will then be able to pull our data together from the varied lessons around the beginning of November allowing us to review our PBI strategies and match it with what we have done in the past along with correlation to the standard courses of study for our two classes. __Lesson Plan__ Our lessons are going to be similar in the aspects of the material and the concepts that will be covered but they are going to differ in the implementation as Nick is currently teaching sophomores and Taylor is teaching all juniors. We are both going to be heavily relying on the use of the Web 2.0 tools to be able to create environments where our students will be able to create and discover many of the aspects of the Constitution that they never would have been able to comprehend under the normal circumstances of teacher lead discussion and facilitation.
 * COMPETENCY GOAL 1: The learner will examine the constitutional underpinnings of United States government.**
 * 1.02** Analyze the philosophy and ideologies that influenced the formulation and adoption of the Constitution.
 * 1.03** Investigate the experiences that influenced the beginnings of American government.
 * 1.04** Understand the implication(s) of separation of powers as a foundation of American government.
 * 1.05** Understand the implication(s) of federalism as a foundation of American government.

__Plan to be Implemented__ Students will use teamwork and group collaboration to produce a presentation based upon a Web 2.0 tool that demonstrates mastery of content and inferences related to concepts of the United States Constitution.

Students will be able to choose group members (maximum of three group members, unless numbers dictate otherwise) in this project. Students will be given their specific concept, and will have a few “selected choices” in the Cool Tool that is used to produce the presentation/product. Any groups having the same concept must use different Cool Tools.