Teacher's Guide - Grades K-5 

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Teaching Cleveland Bicentennial Legacy Futures Project: Grades K-5 -- Home of the Future 
 

Participation in the Cleveland Bicentennial Legacy Home of the Future project will enable your students to travel through time! The Teaching Cleveland Bicentennial Legacy Project is designed to involve students of all ages and abilities in anticipation of Cleveland's 250th birthday celebration. This site includes all the instructions your class will need to be Time Travelers. The future belongs to our children; help make them part of it today! 

Directions - Grades K-5 

1. Use the Teaching Cleveland Lesson Plans to create an awareness of Cleveland's past in order to prepare students to travel to the future. Students will become Time Travelers by putting their own creativity to work. 

2. Create your own time capsule to be opened at the end of the school year or on Time Traveler's Day! 

Home of the Future Project  
3. Encourage Time Travelers to spend a little time thinking about a favorite part of their home, for example a favorite toy,something in their bedroom, an article of clothing or something special in their yard or play area.  On the "When I Grow Up" worksheet provided, students can then draw and write a little about how a favorite part of home will look when they grow up. While these young minds may not be able to comprehend the concept of the future, they can make believe and use their active imaginations. 

Examples: 

• A family car with four wheels and an engine, might be a rocket with wings when a student grows up! 
• In-line skates have built-in controls for jet propulsion jumps! 

4. Students will create a Time Traveler Journal. Students will select an aspect of their home or its surroundings to write about, and draw how they imagine a feature of their home will be in 2046. 

After producing a number of journal entries (3 to 5), each student will select their favorite. The favorite entry may be displayed and judged prior to the student placing it in a special envelope created and decorated by the student. Each student should "address" the envelope to: Cleveland Residents, Year 2046, Cleveland, Ohio, or to themselves for the end of the year! 

Encourage the students to create a Time Traveler stamp. Students may also complete the Time Traveler Bio Sheet. 

5. In addition, our young futurists may make their own Time Traveler neckties. 

You Decide! 

Consider printing the student's name on the tie, and with the Time Traveler theme in mind, be creative. 
Ricky "Rocket" Smith 
Sara "Space" Jones 
Tim "Time Machine" Williams 
 

OPTIONAL 5. Music teachers may want to work with students at various grade levels to produce a Time Traveler Song. 

6. Organize a Time Traveler Day for all students K-5. Students can wear their Time Traveler ties, parading through classrooms and hallways. Set the mood by asking students to sing their Time Traveler song or play futuristic music in your classroom. Younger students can display their future drawings on hallway or classroom bulletin boards. Older students too, can display their time Traveler Journals on bulletin boards or in display areas. 

7. Acknowledge your students' participation in the K-5 Teaching Cleveland Bicentennial Legacy Project by presenting each student a Certificate of Participation. 

Photographs 

On Time Traveler Day at your school, be sure to photograph students in grades K-2 donning their ties.  Place photos in the Time Capsule if you have one, or display them on Time Traveler's Day!  Be sure to identify the students, class and/or school on the back of the photo or on a list attached to the photo. 

Journals 

At your school, be sure to organize a process for selecting and displaying journals.  These entries can be displayed on Time Traveler's Day.  Have all students who kept a journal read a little from it to the rest of the class. 

Songs 

If students have taped a Time Traveler K-5 Song, it too can be submitted for inclusion in the Time Capsule or be performed on Time Traveler's Day. 
 
 

Links to student pages 
Links are set for instructors to be able to view student content. 

Student pages: