Visiting Fourth Grade

This week I stopped by Fourth grade to see what was happening.  Students were busy working on a really interesting project.  I had three ladies help fill me in on why there was tinfoil, toothpicks and playdough laying out on their table.

The trio instructed me in the fact that there are two hemispheres to our world - the northern and southern.  On their tinfoil, they had created two different circles with continent lines drawn in them.  They had labeled their toothpicks with the names of continents and oceans.  With help from two different pictures and a globe, they were placing their labels to match the outlines that had been drawn in to the playdough.

It is fascinating what we can make hands on and interesting for students here at Aspen!  Just think about what we can do to take the abstract idea of hemispheres and make it concrete with toothpicks, foil and playdough.

Tonight, be sure to ask a fourth grader to tell you all about the hemispheres they mapped out!