A Pentz Elementary School Teacher found a fun way to get her students involved in history.
Linda McPhee created an “escape room” for her second and third grade classes to teach them about the Halifax Explosion.
Communications with the South Shore School Board Theresa Schroder says it’s a good way to diversify learning.
She says not every student benefits from the traditional textbook methods.
“And this scenario worked so well that even some students who sometimes had difficulties were very engaged and they understood it and they appreciated it,” she says.
“They actually gave feedback that they liked it quite a lot.”
Schroder says it’s a way to make learning more fun and it is one way the they’re diversifying the classroom.
They want to be able to reach students who don’t learn by traditional methods.
“Learning about the actual explosion, different artifacts, a big spike from one of the ships and something that had come from a chandelier off one of the ships and how it had completely melted due to the explosion,” she says.
“So the children got to see, and touch and experience back then.”
Students also learned why the province sends a Christmas tree to Boston every year.
They were also encouraged to donate food to those in need, like those who needed in 1917.
