Global Learning for 3rd Graders
By Jeana Kotzman
September 10, 2008
Let the Work Begin
If you don’t have it-make it! Third graders at Northeast Elementary School were busy with their first major project of the school year; paper mache’ globes.
Thirty-five third grade students are brightening the halls of Northeast Elementary School this year. Needless to say, things like classroom globes don’t go far when everyone is studying the earth, oceans, and continents at the same time.
What better way to learn the shape of the earth than by working with a sphere. Surely if you get to paint the continents, islands, and the oceans on those spheres, and label the Equator, Northern and Southern Hemispheres, not to mention adding a compass rose you will KNOW where they are. Not to mention the fun and adventure of it all!
Third grade teachers Jeana Kotzman and Shane Wade, along with the help of Katy Thompson, Pittsburg State University Candidate Teacher, and Amy Evans, para-support and classroom mom, put their heads and classes together to ‘stick out’ this messy project during the first few weeks of school.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this project happen; the teachers for the patience for project Fridays, the students for being good listeners and workers, and the Janitors for getting STUCK with the mess and being kind about it.
It is bound to be another great school year!
