Engaging Students in Social Studies Through Exploration, Documentation, and Analysis: Museums and Field Studies Can Bring Social Studies to Life

These third-grade students are engaged in focused, social studies-based conversations while mapmaking and adding to personal journals during a week of studies at the San Diego Museum of Art. This week’s explorations transported them to a time long ago and to places far away. Using their fertile and vivid imaginations as vehicles, students traveled along the Silk

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Trade Route between China’s Changan and Greece’s Byzantium to trade, learn, and then share their findings with others.