History Students get Creative and Accurate

How many students know where our country’s regions are? What about major lakes? Or even the names of those lakes? Well, one thing's for sure, history teacher Mr. Shields’s students at Springville Junior High do!  This project is a big part of students’ grades, and is intended to give students an experience of what it is like to make an accurate map. 

This assignment comes with some requirements. Students needed to draw the outline of the United States, draw some major rivers, lakes, mountain ranges, bodies of water, physical regions, and a key. This assignment helped students with knowing where important things are, knowing the names of those important things.

According to Teresa Morse, an eighth grader in Mr. Shields’s class, it was a fun assignment because students were able to work on it with a friend and to use their creativity. Students got to work on it with a friend in class, AND stretch their creativity level. A couple of creative ideas that students used on their poster were candy, string, food, glitter, and aquarium rocks.

This project ended with so many different ways to help students, such as getting smarter, and getting more creative. According to Teresa Morse, it wasn’t a hard assignment; it was fun and easy to follow.