Wonderful weather!

Our 2nd graders are researching types of weather conditions and how each affects us in North Carolina. They are working in pairs, and will produce a story video, slid presentation, or other multimedia project. Did you know too much sun can be bad for our environment? Or flooding can actually help us? Ask a Dana 2nd grader!

Researching in 4th!

The 4th graders are researching the Civil War and how it affected Western North Carolina. We have spent several days searching through books, encyclopedias, online databases, and connecting to websites about the Coastal Plains, the Piedmont, and our Mountains. We could probably spend about two more weeks! There's so much information out there.

Where do we come from?

Dana's 5th graders are researching immigration and migration. How and why do different groups of people move? What are the causes and effects? Each student took the part of someone in a family in several different cultures and interviewed each other for their final product. The experience developed empathy for people from many historical situations.

Dana's 3rd graders have just finished their Civil War Big 6 research project. Some are sharing their notes with their partners. Others are checking the sources used with their citation page.