On a perfect early October day, our 3rd grade students at Clarks Creek Elementary, coupled with high school students, tied math, geography, and history together in an intricate design woven across curriculums.
Students completed different math stations to review multiplication skills that they’re working on, while also exploring how Native American tribes in different regions around the country historically sourced and obtained food. Each station was interactive, from making arrays with corn, fishing for math models, hunting bison while showing multiplication problems in different ways, and solving multiplication story problems.
Twenty-two HOSA (Health Occupation Students of America) students from PHS facilitated all the stations, assisting students if they needed help, offering motivation, and being mentors to 8 & 9 year olds.
By taking these different areas of education and tying them together in an exciting way, students cement the information in different parts of their brain, which helps with overall skill retention.
