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Social Studies Showcase
Students in Mr. Neil Robertson’s Grade 9 social studies class learned about analysis and presentation by sharing research projects with staff members and their fellow students through a showcase this week.
The focus of the project was on asking questions and finding out not only what the answers were, but if they could be answered at all. In some cases, the lack of an answer was just as intriguing as getting an answer.
“Each student picked an artifact – it could be something personal to them or something from the School museum,” Mr. Robertson explained. “Then they asked questions to see what they could find out about the artifact itself, or the concept of it. For example, if they picked an old car, and they couldn’t find out anything about that specific car, they could ask questions about cars in general.”
The artifacts chosen by the students were diverse, including the sport of lacrosse, the table at Mason’s Store (located a short walk from the School on Renfrew Road), a Claddagh ring that has been passed down for generations, a mammoth tooth found in a family goldmine, a book of family recipes written in a script that can no longer be read, a wall-mounted phone from early in the 20th century, medals a grandfather earned as a fighter pilot, and a book a student’s father was reading when he was evacuated from his office building next to the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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