Speculative History & the Creation of Curious Student Minds
My students need 4 copies each of Thing Explainer and What If? -- 8 total books that will build motivation-fueling, engagement-creating curiosity in my students.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Stuart's classroom raised $181
This project is fully funded
My Students
World history is too often seen as "one darn thing after another" from a stale old textbook. Yet, lovers of history know that this is the furthest thing from the truth. I want to help my freshmen students see the beautiful mosaic of stories that comprise world history.
My kids are awesome and I love them.
We live in a small town, yet my students are future world-shapers. I believe they can be the kinds of teens who grow up into parents, spouses, thinkers, and creators who impacted others. Yet, for many of them, this small town is all they've ever known -- and there's both a beauty to that reality, and a limitation to it.
My Project
Imagine a world history classroom that had shelves full of books on any topic that caught a student's fancy. What if, when a few students became intrigued by learning world history through the lens of What Ifs and alternate timelines, they had multiple copies of the best books on this topic to draw from our classroom library? I could point them back to that section of my library, quickly book talk the titles on WWI that I had available for them, and send them off with reading experiences sure to add reality and sobriety to their impressions of this topic.
That's what you're providing with this project -- a chance to dig deeper into history; a chance to do what few history students get to do in this country: explore deeply and richly the many stories that the textbooks cannot contain.
If you've fallen in love with history, help my students do the same. Thank you so much!
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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