Simulating the Corps of Discovery

Why simulate history? And what kind of history should we simulate in fourth and fifth grade? We do a number of simulations in Cerrito, big and small, and they serve to ground abstract historical events in lived experiences. Sure, the Berkeley Harbor isn’t the Missouri River, but the canoes we paddled aren’t all that much […]

12/5-9: Lewis and Clark, etc.

Cerrito Creek is currently wrapping up a unit on electricity, magnetism, and energy by doing a research project on renewable energy. It’s a short introduction to research in the form of a Google Presentation. It furthermore provides a reason for why we study these things. In the language of the Next Generation Science Standards, climate […]