Culminating Activities Introduction
You can use this activity as will best work for you and your class. Use your imagination and creativity and work with your coworkers and parents to make this a success. You can do this activity within your classroom or you can work on it as a grade level event. Invite parents to attend or invite another class or grade level to join you.
After you have completed the study of the Kern County Pioneers, set up centers, one for each family. Students dress in simple costumes and remain in character as they share what they have learned about the families. They can demonstrate what they have learned by sharing a craft or skill they have learned. A few examples include setting up a bank, telling about sheep shearing and weaving, creating a general store like the one in Woody, making a stagecoach stop where travelers discuss the hazards of overland travel, building a mock grist mill and explaining how it works, making candles, stenciling or quilting, collecting tools typical of the era and demonstrating or explaining how they would have been used.
You can make backdrops for the centers by making overlays of the blacklines, then enlarging them using the overhead projector.
Your students may come up with more creative and meaningful activities to share.
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