My students need 28 National Geographic Kids World Atlases.
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My Students
I want my fourth grade students to dive into the history of their city from the colonial era to the present day. I want this history study to be their ticket into a lifelong interest in history and geography. I also want this study to stoke their excitement about the larger world outside our city.
My students are a diverse group who attend an urban public school.
They come from amazingly diverse backgrounds ethnically, socio-economically, and in terms of their learning abilities.
Our school stands out from many other public schools because of our progressive social studies-based curriculum. From block building in PreK - second grade, to visiting Congress in fifth grade, our kids learn through hands-on experiences and trips. Our principal fights to keep class size relatively small, so that our children have the greatest opportunity to learn.
My Project
I have requested a class set of National Geographic Kids World Atlases. My students will use these atlases for a variety of projects this year. Early in the year, they will use the atlases to research their family's immigration history, and the immigration history of other students and teachers in the class.
Later on, they will journey even farther back in history, and use the atlases to identify the countries and sea routes of the different nations that colonized our city. They will use the atlases to better understand the plight of immigrants to the U.S. over the last 400 years, including those enslaved peoples who underwent the horrors of forced immigration during the middle passage.
At the end of the school year, each student will keep his or her atlas.
This will be so great because these atlases will have become records of the interdisciplinary learning that they did all year. In addition to being reference books, these books will be meaningful reminders of the students' introduction to the influence of world cultures on the city they call home.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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