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.