About Our Project
First This project began as a way to record important things. We read "The Important Book" by Margaret Wise Brown and wrote a list of things that were important to us at that moment in time.
Second Then we thought about the April 2 tornado that hit our town last spring and made a list of what had been important right after the tornado when some people did not have electricity, a dry bed, or a house left standing. This somehow led to questioning what might have been important when our parents or grandparents were in fifth grade.
Third The students came up with a list of 30 important questions they wanted to use to interview someone older.
Fourth After the interview, they had to pick their ten favorite questions and answers to create a document in Inspiration about important things now and important things years ago.
Fifth After all their ideas and answers were organized, they wrote a document in Word about what they had learned.
Sixth

The last step was to create a Dreamweaver document to present their findings to share with their parents.

Seventh

We had a family night to share our work with our parents.

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