Combining History, Language Arts, and Science, students will travel through time to meet people who changed the world. After each historical figure (such as Leonardo Da Vinci or Marie Curie) is intro
duced through story, students will step into their shoes by experiencing hands-on activities that relate to their lives. By creating lesson book pages will reinforce their learning and expand their skills through summarizing, writing and drawing. Students will complete a page for each historical figure into their lesson books If desired, parent home educators can extend the lessons at home, using the completed lesson book pages as inspiration for extending their student’s learning. The 10-week course will cover approximately five historical figures; possible historical figures may include:
- Leonardo Da Vinci (mirror writing, experiments with water)
- Avicenna, a doctor & author born in 980 (Indian number system, Arabic writing, memorizing)
- Aristotle
- Plato
- Sacajewea (invaluable to helping Lewis & Clark travel to the Pacific coast)
- Marie Curie (first woman to win Nobel Prize, radium, x-ray machine with daughter)
- Maria Mitchell (self educated Astronomer, first to photograph the sun, studied Jupiter & Saturn)
- Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations committee that wrote the Declaration of Human Rights)
- Florence Nighingale (nursing)
- Einstein (experiments)
Biographies is offered at the WLR Rancho Cordova site on Mondays for Grades 5-8, and is led by the enthusiastic Ms. Audra Sterrett. Ms Sterrett also teaches Heroes & Fables for Grades 1-4 on Mondays.
