Lesson: We the Students: Crafting Our Class Constitution
Published on August 22, 2025
We the Students: Crafting Our Class Constitution
Freedom 250
📝 Overview
This lesson plan (LP) introduces students to Constitution Day and helps students explore how a classroom constitution can be used as a tool for creating a collaborative environment by creating a classroom constitution. Students address three essential questions:
- What is Constitution Day?
- What is a constitution?
- How can we identify our shared classroom attitudes and traits to create a collaborative class constitution?
📚 Teacher Goals
This lesson plan (LP) guides teachers to:
- collaborate with students to build a classroom community
- prompt students to collaborate, communicate, and think critically
🎯 Student Goals
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
- learn more about why the U.S. Constitution was created
- identify student attitudes and behaviors they was in a classroom community
- collaborate with classmates
- think critically about what they want their classroom to look like
