The grade fours have been incredibly excited to be a part of the Minecraft design challenge. The challenge provides our students with an opportunity to navigate through a virtual representation of downtown Calgary, interacting with experts as they consider the Resilient Calgary Strategy. The students first selected one of the four areas to design: The Green Line YYC, The Calgary Public Library, Fort Calgary or Sein Lok Park. They then worked to on a design that met the three resiliencies, climate, economic and social. They have now begun bringing their visions to life within Minecraft.
Despite the rain, the grade fours had a fantastic time on our field trip to Heritage Park. It was wonderful to experience all of our learning in Social Studies first hand. We sheltered from the rain in a tipi, felt beaver pelts as we learned about the fur trade and rode a train like the ones that helped to make settlement in the West possible. Seeing the first settler homes, the "soddies", homes that housed families with sixteen children and sandstone buildings helped the students to better understand what life was like for early settlers. Most are happy that they are able to go to a school with hundreds of students and one grade per classroom rather than a one room schoolhouse of the past!
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