By Keana Quitlong
SILVERDALE -- Our eighth grader Honors History and ELA (English Language Arts) teacher, Stephanie Render had both of her history classes start an assignment based on the immigration in the Washington state. The main goal of the project was to learn more about the culture in Washington through picture analyzation and to infer what the immigrants did in the past and why they decided to move in the state. When the students did their project, they had to choose a specific culture from either Chinese, Irish, Scandinavian, Hawaiian Kanakas, German, Italian, and the Japanese immigrants. They had to find pictures based on their lives in their home country and their lives in Washington and paste those pictures onto a poster board. “We do so much writing that anytime I can find lessons that can appeal to visual learners, I would like to try and use it,” said Render. She liked the idea of using visual images for others to learn, considering students can learn information by looking at a picture. “I felt it was complicated and challenging at some parts in the project, especially things specific to Washington,” said eighth grader Michaela Tran, after being asked what was the challenging part of her project. The project wasn’t easy, mostly for the students who chose a culture that wasn’t entirely well known to Washington State. For the past two weeks, the posters have been up in the hallways for others to look at. Comments are closed.
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