features
- Constructivist, inquiry-centred learning
- Engages students in active learning as they work collaboratively to create a setting, characters and plot
- Teaching and assessment strategies and tools
Fields of Home is a StoryScapes mini-unit based on InPraxis Learning’s adaptation of the Storyline strategy.
Storyline is a teaching method that encourages students to build and explore understandings and deepen their appreciation and knowledge of topics or concepts. The Storyline approach fosters critical and creative thinking, democratic practices and skills, curiosity and self-directed learning – all essential 21st century competencies. It is centered on the basic elements of story, a structure familiar to children. Storyline strategy integrates literacy skills and helps students apply their learning to real social issues in the world around them.