Story Path...a journey within a classroom becoming an adventure!

I  must say that Story Paths will be used in my classroom.  I loved the way that Ms. Meier built our background knowledge of Mt. Everest.  I had seen the movie Vertical Limit before and knew what a dangerous task it is to climb mountains, but it is so much more than the movie.  She made it real and gave us a perspective of how it would be if we were to attempt to climb Mt. Everest.  Making it real and putting situations and parts of history in perspective is important and it makes it more personal to students when they do a story path.  They can get into characters and find solutions to real situations that were/are dealt with.  There are so many subjects that Story Paths can be done with, civil war situations, underground railroad, the depression, WWII, etc.  Or even the Mayflower Compact (Daphanie..).  This was a wonderful activity to view as a future teacher and to experience as a student; and this will definitely be implemented in my classroom.