Was the USA always united?

In this week’s Global lesson, the Year 4 children have been researching when the USA became the United States of America as we know it today.  Initially they had to identify and locate the original 13 states of America, and they were noticed that all of them were close together and all of them were on the east coast.  This prompted a thoughtful discussion about why this would be the case with the Geography detectives in the class recognising how English some of the state names sounded and others with their History hats referring the Pilgrim Fathers.  Global lessons are a great way to see children’s critical thinking skills in action as well as great fun!