Students realized kids were overusing soap and water in the bathrooms. After learning about the importance of using resources responsibly, they created posters to remind students of the expectations.

This wall displays shows student work from the Our State and Region.

My students love this unit! There is so much depth and students get to learn multiple perspectives on how Oregon became a state. The Inquiry Wall is something we refer back to all unit long and students love to see their work on the wall.

We taught this unit in a 4/5 blend. Students worked in groups and were engaged. Each group focused on a different region and within the group each person created an artifact to represent a different area of the Native American group's life.

My students also made inquiry products like colonial cook books, posters, presentations, and skits. We had a lot of great discussions during the unit and students were engaged throughout.

For this wall display, the students connected the different ways they could learn from others around the world and show how we are all connected through our global citizenship. Students researched different countries and learned about how goods and raw materials can originate from all over the world before they reach the stores we buy them from.

Students painted self portraits and filled in hearts with pictures and words to show themselves on the outside and inside.

Every year students present their Native American Cultural Area Museum Exhibits: students build, mold, draw, analyze, and create awesome projects to share based on their role in the group. There is a shelter diorama, story analysis, artifact analysis, food samples presentation, artwork presentation or inspired artwork creation, and clothing presentations for each of the cultural areas. Students are placed in their groups and they then decide who is going to take on which role, so it is an amazing project for student choice and demonstrating mastery in multiple ways.

This was a wonderful, student driven project. The class worked in groups to brainstorm places in several categories including: activities, shopping, restaurants, places to visit, and private lessons available. Students focused on 3 specific activities that had personal meaning to them and explained what the place was and why it was kid friendly. Then they chose other pictures of places from the general list for the middle photos and created a list of other things like schools, (mostly private, including preschools), places to shop, lessons, places to visit, etc. depending upon what was already included in their brochure. The class remained excited throughout the activity and they were all proud of their finished products.

We created a gameboard of our special location.

Students illustrated and organized flip book handouts.

Students researched Indigenous Americans and used Canva to created Infographics to share what they learned. Walden School, Deerfield School District 109