Students in Kristi McRae's Grade 4/5 class at McKim Middle School recently completed an in-depth and interactive project highlighting Kimberley's history.
The students started working on the project in late October. They began by choosing either an event or a building from Kimberley's past and then researched it, using information provided by McRae.
The teacher librarian helped them create QR codes, which when accessed, show the students talk about the event or building they researched. These are placed all over town so the community can interact with them and learn about local history.
You can find them at Full-Fill Zero Waste Market, Save-On-Foods, Marysville Falls, the Civic Centre, the Library and many more.
"This town has a lot of rich history, so I though we need to do something about this," McRae said. "But it took us all year, literally. Teaching them how to summarize articles, how to write an email, there was a lot of steps to it, it was a bigger project than I thought it would be."
All the hard work was well worth it.
"They loved it," McRae added. "I thought they would be getting bored of it by a certain point, but they were super keen. They got to the point where they were like 'are we going to record? Are we going to do the QR codes?'"
The first one to go up was at the Library and a big display was made around it, surrounded by the books used to research it and there's another up in the museum.
"They're super proud," McRae said. '"Our voices are out there for people to listen to,' which is really cool."
McRae said the project would not have been possible without the help of McKim's teacher librarian Matt Stevens, who created all the QR codes and made a cardboard recording booth for the students to record in.
