Elizabeth and I chose Gateway Gardens as our site for the project. We both feel that is it a unique spot that grasps attention of the people that pass by it on Lee Street. I feel that it is placed in this particular spot to allow the community to come together as a collaborative group [...]

My project incorporates a lesson on ecosystems and how landscaping and other forms of human interference affects ecosystems. Students will take a trip to the lawn on UNCG’s campus in front of the Elliott University Center, and examine how the short length of the grass affects the ecosystems within it. Student’s will then make illustrations of the inferences that they [...]

We chose to do our site at the Hunter Dairy Farm farms because we thought that children should know where milk actually comes from. Considering it is on their lunch five days out of the week. We visited the site in High Point North Carolina and took a tour of the facility. We saw the process of pasteurization [...]

This project explores concepts of community, history, and even measuring and math through fun, exhilarating group activities through downtown Greensboro along the railroad station and tracks and places close by the railroad tracks. The students will visit the depot, and create their own accurate maps along the railroads and railroad routes and show what makes Greensboro “The Gate City.” It [...]

A fifth grade classroom would have the ability to explore the Guilford County Courthouse off of S. Eugene Street in Greensboro, NC. After doing
a 4 day preparation period, where the students expanded their knowledge in the classroom, the students would have the chance to use that knowledge in a mock trial that takes place at the Guilford County Courthouse.

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My name is Hannah Bricker. For my site based activity I chose to have student’s make a garden. It will be located at Grace Community Church off of West Lee Street. I chose this site because of the tutoring program that is located there called Glenwood tutoring. Most of the children in this program [...]