history

During my freshman year, we completed a deep dive into the Russian Revolution and the politics and families surrounding it. We looked at the influence of the royal family, Rasputin, the Bolsheviks and everything in between. This entire unit, which lasted about a month, was entirely interactive and was designed with students in mind. Students were often getting up moving around exploring the room looking to find clues to solve the mystery surrounding the Russian royal family.

This aligns well with the ISSN objective of investigating the world because it was a hands-on collaborative process between myself and the entire class to look at how we could discover the history of the revolution, explore the causes leading up to it, and it and its effects on modern day Russia and the world.

A key part of this was stuffed animals dressed like historical figures from the period. Everyday, stuffed animals would play a critical role in explaining the story of the Russian Revolution to us, their faces would change as they became sicker and large interactive maps would be dotted with characters across them. The interactivity of this lesson allowed me to more deeply understand and synthesize why the Russian Revolution was so influential and how it still has modern ramifications on politics and global relations today.