Virtual School Meanderings

August 24, 2012

Back-to-School Olympics Clue #4

From yesterday’s inbox…

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Digital Learning Day - Engaging Students. Celebrating Teachers. Creating Better Schools.

Dear Digital Learning Day Participant:

It’s time for Digital Learning Day’s Back-to-School Olympics clue of the day!

Documents, pictures, and accounts,
Many as old as 200 years.
Detail the history of America
The hopes, the challenges, and the tears.

Visit the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/
Research the Records
Look under Most Requested and View the Declaration of Independence
Read Transcript

Elementary Students
Use the transcript to answer the following questions:

Who drafted the Declaration of Independence?

What are the three unalienable rights articulated in the Declaration of Independence?

How many states made the unanimous declaration?

Where is it exhibited?

Secondary Students
Visit the National Archives: http://www.archives.gov/
Research the Records
Look under Most Requested and View the Declaration of Independence
Read Transcript

Who drafted the Declaration of Independence?

What is the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

What are the three unalienable rights articulated in the Declaration of Independence?

How many states made the unanimous declaration?

Name the states.

Name the first signer of the Declaration of Independence from Massachusetts.

Where is it exhibited?

Don’t Forget!
Don’t forget that all the Olympics clues and answer keys are posted at Digital Learning Day Back-to-School Olympics. If you didn’t have time to use your prior clues, you can use them now! If this will be your first visit to the new Digital Learning Day website, you’ll initially see a Splash page, where you’ll need to click on “Get Started” on the Splash page. That will take you to the next page, where you’ll click on “Olympics” or “contests/swag” on the right side of the screen.

But first! It’s important that you remember to add your Digital Learning Day celebration, big or small, to the cool new Digital Learning Day event map! If you are receiving this email, you are already signed up to participate in Digital Learning Day 2013. However, we are restarting a tally of student participation through our new events map. We hope student numbers will grow exponentially in the coming weeks, so please make sure to visit the “News & Events” page to add your celebration to the map. No matter how easy or complicated your effort will be, we want to know how you’ll be celebrating Digital Learning Day before, during, and/or after February 6, 2013. All participants should submit details about their events, including the number of students participating, whether its classroom based, schoolwide, or districtwide. We will continually update the number of students participating in Digital Learning Day. Our goal is to surpass the more than 2 million students who participated last year, so please add your event today!

Thanks for everything, and please let us know what you think of the clues. Are they too hard, too easy? We look forward to working with you again this year!

Sara Hall
Alliance for Excellent Education

Please note: If you would like to be removed from the daily Olympics clues email list, please send an email to Rachel Jones at rjones@all4ed.org—do not unsubscribe or you will be removed from the entire Digital Learning Day list.

For More Information, visit our website at digitallearningday.org

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