THE EVENT
Classes: Gean Brady's fifth-grade satellite class
Number of students: 45
Subject: A history project
THE SCHOOL
Location: 340 West 650 South, Bountiful
Students: 600
Number of teachers: 23
Principal: Deon Stevens
School district: Davis
THE LESSON
The learning: The students in the "gifted" program, under the direction of fifth-grade teacher Gean Brady, decided to spend a day in the life of a colonial child.
The girls created their own corn-husk dolls, put on a quilt that they will donate to the homeless and made popcorn. The boys made marbles out of clay. Marbles is a game that originated during that time period. Students made their own candles by dipping, and they also learned other ways to make candles. After visiting the testing table of foods that were common to the period, they made replicas of the Mayflower. The children discussed the size of the ship and used their math skills to solve story problems, and the mothers of the students not only decorated the rooms to look like old classrooms but helped teach the children. "The children retain more information when they have hands-on learning," said Brady.