Digital Collaboration

Students in Mr. Hoyt’s high school World History 2 classroom have been actively collaborating together on a “State of the World” Conceptboard. Student groups are assigned a specific region of the world to study, such as India, Italy or Japan. They research the defining geographic, economic, historical and political characteristics of their region and collect evidence in the form of text and media.

Students take their evidence and actively build a rich and descriptive visual image of the world during this time, including river and border lines, images of key political and religious figures, and other defining characteristics of the region.

While social studies is not a STEM subject, there is considerable overlap in the classroom tools used and the inquiry mindset that students adopt, so much so that social studies can inspire and launch STEM projects with purpose and justification.