The Fifth-Graders Who Put Mexican Repatriation Back Into History Books [via YES Magazine]

Love it. Inquiry-driven, project-based, real-world.

Leslie Hiatt’s fifth-graders are no strangers to politics. Seeking to empower children as agents of change, Hiatt’s U.S. history class encompasses more than the Pilgrims and the Constitution. Through project-based learning, students also study the Trail of Tears, the Chinese Exclusion Act, child labor laws, and Japanese internment camps.

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