Thanks to the KCKPD for sending Officers Terry, Casas & Grote to visit with students and have lunch in the TE cafeteria! Our fifth grade is excited to be starting their first Project Based Learning unit about Native Americans! With our driving question "How can we as a tribe decide when to stay or leave based on our resources?" students are able to research in many ways! They were taken outside and dropped into a remote region on a chalk drawing of the United States so they could determine the resources around them. They are also reaching out to other historians to help inform them of Native American culture. The Kansas Historical Society of Topeka sent them literature, and they have been Skyping with the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming. Students had a 45 minute lesson about the Plains Indian, and researched and wrote questions to conduct a Skype interview with a Lakota Indian. Students then gathered their facts and created a product to share with our community as well as social media!
Ms. Williams 4th grade received tweets from Mr. Owl Tootsie Pops. It took them more than 10 minutes!! It also took them between 150-400 licks!!!
Parent, Ebony Jackson, was interviewed on KMBC 9 morning news! Ms. Jackson has a kindergartner at Turner Elementary!
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