In Judy Pastusek's 6th grade social studies class, students were studying about East and West Germany. The students in Mrs. Pastusek's 2nd period class were asked how they could create a model of the two countries that showed everything they had learned about the them. This class came up with a great idea to build an ice cream sundae where one scoop represented East Germany and another scoop represented West Germany. The students felt that they could bring different toppings to represent the different aspects they had learned. To top this off (no pun intended!), Mrs. Pastusek asked if the class would mind if she had all of her classes create the same project! The 2nd period students agreed that this would be a great lesson for all.
Each class period brought their own toppings depending on what they want to use for items such as the Berlin Wall, the major cities, the wars that took place, etc. As items were brought in, students began to create a key to their model so that when the model was created, no time was wasted making those decisions.
On the day that the models were created, students scooped out their ice cream and began to top the ice cream with their labels for the model. Once the model was created, Mrs. Pastusek took their picture and uploaded the picture to VoiceThread. The students then added their recordings to describe why they selected the toppings and what the toppings represented. Below is their final product! What an awesome way to continue to work on student discourse!
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