Friday, May 3rd, students in Mrs. DelToro's Kansas history class used a 16ft x 20ft map of the state of Kansas, as part of their Kansas Counties Unit, to find some towns and geographic features that were included on the map. At the end of each class period, students played a game of Kansas Towns Twister!!
This week students have completed a little research on a Kansas County of their choice and are presenting this information on a poster. The poster includes students' artwork as well as printed primary source pictures of people and places that represents their county. Next week, students will have a chance to see who can memorize the 105 counties of Kansas and where each county is located within the state for their final "test" on Tuesday, May 14th, in their Kansas History class. Students will be competing for a Sonic gift card!!
Some students stated before class and when Mrs. DelToro met them at the classroom door asking them to take their shoes off, "What? I have to take my shoes off for Kansas History!"
"That was so fun!" and "When can we do something like this again?!" were some of the comments made after class!
Mrs. DelToro's hands-on Geography class also had an opportunity to get in on the fun with the HUGE National Geographic Kansas Floor Map!! These students located cities and geographical features in Kansas on the large floor map and then placed them on their smaller 8.5 x 11 map of Kansas. Students were challenged with making sure features that were placed on their worksheet were transferred "to scale" from the large Kansas Floor Map!!
Mrs. DelToro said, "Both days were fun filled and about 99.9% of the students were fully engaged in the learning activities that were presented!"
She went on to say, "Much thanks to Rhonda Leffered and the Kansas Geographic Alliance for loaning this map to us this year"
