You Need Love

At the beginning of this spring's First Peoples of the NW Coast storyline, we built a coastline and lush coastal forest.  Before adding humans, I asked the students what people might need to survive there.  I knew I'd elicit the requisite information I needed to elaborate scientifically: food, water, shelter.  My students are so much smarter than I.  They knew it takes more to build a life than the bare essentials.  Here are some of their responses:

Thank goodness they are my guides through the wilderness.

-ACCESS Academy, Portland Public Schools, Grade 4, 2017.