Inquiry Project
PROJECT DESCRIPTION My classes this year consist of two groups of 11 students each. These 22 students consists of kids in 4th grade with ages ranging from 9-11. Four of these students are new to our school. I keep my home room on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. I have the second group of students on Wednesday and Friday. Due to this new schedule, students will be receiving social studies work time two days per week. This project is best explained in 4 phases... Phase 1: Explore the states! This project is a social studies based project. The purpose of this project is to collect information on a state of their choice and present what they think visitors should know about their state to give audience members the feeling of traveling to their state without leaving home. They begin their project by browsing through the National Geographic website. National Geographic has a page containing all of the states that students need to look through. After looking through all of the states, the...