2024/11/22 K-2Grade by Fran

My experience was the tale of two tours! The first group was engaged, knowledgeable, curious, and full of ideas, which they were eager to share. The second group was hungry! The timing on this tour worked well. We began promptly at 10:00 and were able to make it through efficiently.
These were second-grade students.
Our discussions were engaging with both groups. They all seemed very interested in the science/art connection.
The first group was fascinated by how the explosions affected the substrates. The second group, not so much. They seemed to prefer wandering so I let them explore when possible. This group(2) was particularly fascinated by the stencils. I did a quick visual by tearing a hole in a piece of paper and using a pencil to shade in the hole, producing a filled-in circle on the blank paper substrate.

I think with the second group, I might have used Bob’s idea of giving them pencil/paper early on. (I’m not sure they were ready for that amount of independence.) Before beginning, we did some movement in the garden but it didn’t help. There was little to be done once it was announced that they were hungry.li

Both groups were fascinated by Palmyra, so I’d like to learn more about the work and how to tour it with primary students. Any ideas would be appreciated.