The Founding Fathers believed in big ideas: fairness, equal treatment, and having a voice. Guess what? You use these same ideas every day!
When your family makes rules together, that is like the leaders meeting in Philadelphia. When you take turns choosing a game, that is fairness. When everyone gets a chance to speak at dinner, that is having a voice.
The Founding Fathers wrote their ideas down so no one would forget them. Families and classrooms write down rules too! Good rules protect everyone and help people get along. Today you will think like a Founding Father and write some fair rules of your own.
1. Name two big ideas the Founding Fathers believed in.
2. Why did they write their ideas down?
3. What do good rules do?
Write what each word means in your own words.
Be a Founding Father (or Founding Kid!) for your family. Write three fair rules that would help everyone in your home get along. Then have family members sign at the bottom, just like the Declaration!
Rule 1: ________________________________________________
Rule 2: ________________________________________________
Rule 3: ________________________________________________
Signatures: ______________________________________________
1. Was it hard to write rules that are fair to everyone? Why?
2. What happens when a rule is unfair to someone?
1. The Founding Fathers believed in and being treated .
2. Having a say in things is called having a .
3. They their ideas down so no one would forget.
4. Families and classrooms have too.
5. Good rules everyone.
Write T for true or F for false in each circle.
| I learned... | Circle one |
|---|---|
| The big ideas of the Founding Fathers | YES / NOT YET |
| How I use those ideas every day | YES / NOT YET |
| I wrote my own family declaration | YES / NOT YET |