Guiding Principles
Modules 1-3: Big Ideas
Modules 1-3: Big Ideas
- Module 1: Understanding Government
- Module 2: Assessing Needs
- Module 3: Crafting a Government
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
- What are the responsibilities of a government?
- What are the defining characteristics of different forms of government?
- Why is Bridges Academy in need of a Student Government?
- What is the best way to accurately create censuses and surveys and collect important data on a population?
- How does one best use data to inform the creation of a governing system?
- How do we build a system to assess, maintain, and update our government?
Modules 1-3: Enduring Understandings
Modules 1-3: Enduring Understandings
- The functions of government.
- The context for how and why different governments work and don't work.
- Assessing our present system and identifying need(s).
- Appropriate methods for collecting data and using data to guide decision making.
- How to select and establish a new system.
- Best practices for reflections and self-assessment in order to construct a system that can be constantly updated.