Wyoming Seminary Third Graders Complete Native American Project

Pictured outside Wyoming Seminary Lower School’s third-grade classroom are (from left) (front row): Andrew Kim, and Spencer Stirewalt; (second row): Kings College senior Jessica Yaracz; Paul DeNaples, Genevieve Nardone, Taylor Kazimi, Kate Romanowski, and Betsy Gover, third-grade teacher.

Wyoming Seminary third graders in Betsy Gover’s and Heidi Schukraft’s classes recently studied Native Americans. The students took a simulated trip around the country, learning that geography, climate and environment dictated the lifestyle of Native Americans.

Students learned about the value of the buffalo as part of their study of the Plains Indians. After researching how the Natives hunted buffalo, the children wrote their own skin stories and made a life-size buffalo. Jessica Yaracz, a student from King’s College, guided the children through their unit as part of her pre-professional semester, which precedes student teaching.       

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