With the goal of teaching economics to fourth grade students, Lakeside Elementary brought its yearly Just Imagine Kansas project to life this past Tuesday in the school’s gym. Just Imagine Kansas uses the state’s social study standards to look at economics and how that relates to Kansas by allowing the students to create a city simulation. For months leading up to the event, the fourth graders researched businesses in the local community. … For the city simulation, the students also elected a mayor. Each of the three fourth grade classes voted for a student to “run for the election,” and those three students each had to give a speech of why he or she should be elected the mayor. When the votes were cast, Adriana Lopez Gomez was appointed mayor. “I said I would help citizens with their problems,” Lopez Gomez said about
her speech.
Source: Morning Sun.
