When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

During the week of our field work experiences, we unfortunately had a wrench thrown into our plans. My partner was unable to make it to class, so we all had to brainstorm a way to create a lesson to present to our 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. We decided on have them create a brochure advertising the Hudson Valley and encouraging people to come visit it. Given the opportunity to do so, the students really impressed up all. The group I worked with was assigned trade and industry. The two boys I worked with collaborated greatly. One of them researched information on the internet, while the other imputed the researched information into the PowerPoint.They added information such as how the Hudson River as well as other local rivers were used to import and export goods for trade which came from the area. These items were transported from New Netherlands (Albany area) to New Amsterdam (New York City.) This was not only a learning experience for the students but, it was for me as well. One of the boys should be how to search information and key words on the page using a keyboard combination. This is something I personally didn't know.The students were required to present at the end of the hour they had to create this brochure. In this time these students were able to create such an amazing masterpiece, and they were equally excited about presenting. It was great to see what could happen positive, when life gives you lemons!