Aide Villalobos, Jennifer Dawson, Kara Turek, and Juliette Pia

For the team’s innovative teaching idea, the “Migration Day Parade,” second-grade students will celebrate migration and participate in the parade. The parade is the culmination of months of project-based and place-based learning from their science and social studies teachers. Students will showcase what they have learned by creating artistic representations of butterflies, hummingbirds, salmon, and other local wildlife that migrates. Students will also be invited to wear cultural attire that represents their family's roots to show their history of human migration. Along the route, the parade will encounter obstacles that represent the natural and human-designed challenges that impact migration. Families, community members, and organizations will be invited to watch and/or contribute. The goal of the parade is to provide an opportunity for student civic engagement by helping them learn how Earth's natural and human systems impact us and how we in turn impact it.