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  • Francisco Middle School
  • San Francisco, CA
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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For English Language learners of any level, content-focused classrooms can be a challenge–it becomes very difficult to access both the curriculum and the language if English is not their first language. To remedy this challenge, my Social Studies classroom made up of 100% Newcomer (recently come to the United States) English Learners is a place primarily for projects, experimentation, and hands-on learning. I prioritize building, creating, and then explaining to allow students to both grasp the content while also building their vocabulary and language. This project, focusing on clay and creating models, will allow this to happen for my students. This project aims to provide high quality sculpting tools and materials for my students, allowing them to create original sculptures and buildings to explain the deep concepts we discuss in 6th and 7th grade Social Studies. These topics, ranging from Ancient China to Medieval West Africa, are important for my students to understand, as understanding history of the world can help us understand our own cultures. I find that my students learn best when they can create, and this high quality clay, made of both earth-tones and various colors, will allow students to make models of Mayan temples, create dioramas of daily life in Greece, and explore the bureaucracy of Medieval China. In the past, my students have created original Egyptian pyramids out of salvaged cardboard and dollar-store duct-tape. My hope is that my students are able to use higher quality materials to really explore the way their ancient peoples built, wondered, and lived.

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For English Language learners of any level, content-focused classrooms can be a challenge–it becomes very difficult to access both the curriculum and the language if English is not their first language. To remedy this challenge, my Social Studies classroom made up of 100% Newcomer (recently come to the United States) English Learners is a place primarily for projects, experimentation, and hands-on learning. I prioritize building, creating, and then explaining to allow students to both grasp the content while also building their vocabulary and language. This project, focusing on clay and creating models, will allow this to happen for my students. This project aims to provide high quality sculpting tools and materials for my students, allowing them to create original sculptures and buildings to explain the deep concepts we discuss in 6th and 7th grade Social Studies. These topics, ranging from Ancient China to Medieval West Africa, are important for my students to understand, as understanding history of the world can help us understand our own cultures. I find that my students learn best when they can create, and this high quality clay, made of both earth-tones and various colors, will allow students to make models of Mayan temples, create dioramas of daily life in Greece, and explore the bureaucracy of Medieval China. In the past, my students have created original Egyptian pyramids out of salvaged cardboard and dollar-store duct-tape. My hope is that my students are able to use higher quality materials to really explore the way their ancient peoples built, wondered, and lived.

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