You know those off-the-wall questions that children can come up? Out of the blue? WA loves those questions!
Mrs. Dougherty keeps track of those questions, encouraging students to do their own research and come back with answers. During their history discussion of the Aztecs, one 5th grader began to dig into the Aztec culture, asking all sorts of questions about their religion, their fascination with maize, and their fashion sense. Finally, he came up with a doozy of a question:
“Did the Aztecs wear popcorn for jewelry?”
Mrs. Dougherty encouraged him to do the research for himself. And he did. And to his, and everyone else’s, amazement:
THEY DID!
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