We have been studying Columbus in our American explorers this year for Social Studies, but we did a little bit extra for him, since Columbus Day is just around the corner. I'm teaching 4th-8th Social Studies this quarter (11 students) and we have been doing our history pocket book from Evan-Moor company. Each week we do a different explorer and make projects around that person.
The students had to do some writing about something that they had learned about Columbus or they could write a letter to Columbus in relation to life back then.
They also did a sequencing project. They had 6 pictures and 6 short passages that they had to put together. Then they had to put them in the correct order or which happened first, then, last, etc...
A sixth grader working on his writing assignment.
I made some hard tack. The kids were excited to hear about it and were hoping I'd get it done for class. It's a very hard, plain, bread-like biscuit. Some of the kids weren't that excited when they took their first bite and realized how hard it was. They decided that it might not be very fun or filling living on hard tack all day if you were on a voyage.
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