Over the past week I was able to take a group of seniors to the World War I Memorial in Kansas City, MO. This ended up being a excellent opportunity for me to incorporate math and Social Studies together. I was able to do so when we were in the part of the museum where the students can view the numbers of those who died during World War I. I had several students look up what the populations of the countries that were involved with World War I were while the war was going on. Once we had determined what the total populations were, I had them then see how these numbers compared to the numbers of people who were killed from select countries during World War I. I think that not only was this a good way to incorporate math and social studies, but it was also a very big eye-opener for students. It seemed as if this was probably one of the first times where the students truly saw the percentage of people who died during World War I. I was able to show the students that in some cases, whole towns basically lost nearly all the men and young men during the war. When we took a look at the level of wounded people it was even more astounding than was the percentage of those who died. Overall I think that this was a successful fieldtrip and I was very happy to get such a good chance to incorporate both math and social studies into the students school day.
Thank You,
Jeff Kreiling
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