Anchor 3-5 Project Based Social Studies- World History

**No live meetings for this class

Class Fees are $10 or 100 points per semester.

The 3rd - 5th- grade class will travel through thousands of years of human history — from the earliest river valley civilizations through the medieval world! You will learn not just what happened, but how historians figure it out. Along the way, students build four skills real historians use: sourcing (asking where information comes from and whether it can be trusted), contextualization (understanding why people in the past made choices that made sense for their time and place), corroboration (comparing sources to see where they agree and where they don't), and close reading (slowing down to notice not just what a source says, but how and why it says it that way). 

Students will turn in 8 required assessments per semester. These required assessments alternate between investigating grade-level concepts by choosing an assignment from a choice board and turning in a curriculum check-in. Each choice board offers both online and pencil-and-paper options. The curriculum check-ins will be graded based on each student's progress in their individual curriculum. This new aspect of the class will encourage students to make progress through the grade-level class. 

Anchor classes are asynchronous, teacher-led classes. Students do NOT have a live meeting. Daily work is provided, and the anchor teacher grades the final weekly assignment. Teachers provide biweekly videos and add instructional supports to each day's lesson. For more information about the curriculum and assignments, please visit the Braintree website.

Want a sneak peek into our Anchor Classes?  Watch this video!

Anchor classes are available year-round. Students who request mid-semester will have their anchor class added to the LMS on Mondays.