Guiding Principles

Modules 1-3: Big Ideas

Module 1: Understanding Government
Module 2: Assessing Needs
Module 3: Crafting a Government

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

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.

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