Family Stories Project Update
INSIDE : A quick update on the project. A touching video about family stories. _______________ Thank you so much for your help with the family stories project . I've extended the "due date" so that kids could get more stories into their maps. As the stories have come in, I am so pleased with what I have been hearing from the kids. So many of them have reported that they are learning things about their families that they either a) did not know before, and/or b) if they had heard the stories, they report that they had not understood them to the degree they now understand them. I think this is cool stuff. I am also impressed with the way the digital maps seem to help the students situate the stories they have in time and place. Several discovered just what a small town a distant relative moved to. This caused them to imagine what those lives might have been like so long ago. Some noticed how clustered their pins are, a sign of how important having a home place is
