Latest Headlines
- ECUA Considering Water, Sewer And Sanitation Rate Increases
- Highway 4, Highway 168 Bridges Across North Escambia Remain Closed. Here’s An Update.
- Two-Time Super Bowl Champ Inspires Local Youth Athletes (With Photo Gallery)
- Century Woman Charged With Meth Possession After Traffic Stop
- For Escambia, Alabama, Deputy Charge With Federal Civil Rights Violation
- FWC Law Enforcement Report: Snapper Size, Gopher Tortoises
- These Are This Week’s Road Construction Trouble Spots
- Drone Show Wows Sellout Crowd in 5-1 Wahoos Loss
- Costco Nine Mile Road Plans Set For Development Review Meeting
- Applications Still Open For Pine Beetle Assistance And Prevention Program
Global Corner: Bratt Elementary Students Take Virtual Trip To Kenya
October 6, 2014
All last week, hundreds of students from Bratt Elementary School took a virtual trip to Kenya, thanks to the Global Corner Learning Center.
The students spent time learning through hands-on activities about the language, arts, culture, geography and more of a unique land half a world away. Each year, The Global Corner teachers take students from their classroom virtually to another country. Through The Global Corner, local students have “visited” Japan, Spain, Egypt, Brazil, Russian, Italy and now Kenya.
The Global Corner “Passport to Kenya” program is scheduled to be at Byrneville Elementary School next week, Molino Park Elementary in November and Jim Allen Elementary in January.
NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
Comments
One Response to “Global Corner: Bratt Elementary Students Take Virtual Trip To Kenya”
I am a Kenyan, studying in South Africa and I commend the work your school is doing in these virtual trips. Many children grow up and become young adults without ever knowing anything beyond their borders, and this kind of teaching opens up their minds and thinking, as it helps create a desire to learn what lies beyond the immediate environ and to query the order of local events/affairs vis-à-vis those abroad. Depending on how the virtual trips are taken/given, they can help the kids appreciate certain realities within their vicinity as they get to teenage and become more embracing of other cultures, as they get to adulthood. Wish you all as you keep the kids learning. Grace Ngugi