Silence, Security, and the Socratic Method: Studying the Reconstruction Era in 10th Grade History
“If you are free physically—you’re not owned by someone else—you have freedom to say what you want, you have political freedom, but at a certain …
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Time’s Arrow: 9th Graders Tackle the Complicated History of Progress
“Pesticides, planes and how to artificially grow things so you can do it out of season.” “The medical industry and technology, also heating and cooling.” …
From Record to Revolution: Studying the Civil Rights Movement Through Song in 2nd Grade
“I think it means, I’m not gonna stop the work that I started.” 2nd Grade readers, writers, and social scientists this week continued their study …
The Artist is Present: Art, Memory, and History in 9th Grade English
“I don’t really want to draw younger me, very specifically. Maybe I can be like a shadow figure.” 9th Grade writers, readers, and thinkers began …
Dust til Dawn: Studying Medieval Civilizations in 7th Grade History
“Something’s value depends how rare it is and how much people are willing to pay for it. So even if [Ghanaians] didn’t use [gold] directly, …
Where the Buffalo Roam: 2nd Graders Connect Timelines and Topics in English and Social Science
“My topic sentence is, ‘The Native Americans helped the buffalo and the buffalo helped the Native Americans.’ Then I say why.” 2nd Grade readers, writers, …
Wander and Wonder: Studying Immigration in 9th Grade History
“Maybe like Haiti when they lost all their trees? Or the emus! But why would someone migrate for health?” After submitting their Mock Trial research …
Causes and Connections: Mapping World War I in 9th Grade History
“It seems like Europe just got in a big war with itself, because Europe had conquered almost the entire world, so then everyone got involved.” …
Pyramid Scenes: 6th Grade Historians Create Newspapers About Ancient Egypt
“They get married at 12! How is that possible?? They wouldn’t even have gone through all the grades by then. Well, I guess they didn’t …
Different Names for the Same Thing: Mapmaking in 5th Grade History
“Sometimes, on Los Gatos Blvd, it’s also called Bascom because it’s divided at some point. But it’s actually the same street, just two names.” 5th …