Story path shines

This week in social studies we worked on a storypath.  We spent one day learning about Mount
Everest and the many different positive and negative aspects of the expeditions that occur there.  On the second day we all created our own character and created a climbing scenario.  We created the mountain, camps, supplies, climbers and the skyline.  This was a neat way to give everyone the ability to create themselves into a character for the story.  We were able to choose between climber or sherpa.  After we designed our characters we designed posters to represent our purpose for being on the mountain.  There were many reasons such as money, thrill, livelyhood, and cleaning crew.  This will be a great activity for students in the classroom.  This allowed us to have a more hands on learning experiance which all students need more of.  I plan on implementing storypaths into my curriculum.  :)