International Community School Kids Learn About Trail of Tears, Human Rights Heroes

The International Community School sent along this information about school activities last week

Second and third-grade exhibits were held on Thursday, March 1, and Friday, March 2, 2012, at the Decatur campus.

All the second graders walked to Avondale Lake wearing some of the Native American gear they made in class. The motion was to commemorate the Trail of Tears that forcibly removed the Cherokee and Creek Native Americans from the southeast and transplanted them in Oklahoma.

Children worked in groups to answer certain questions such as “how did Native Americans use natural resources to survive?” and their feelings about what happened to the Native Americans after just an hour of walk.

 A day later, it was the "Freedom Riders Wax Museum" featuring third graders dressed up as various human rights heroes from around the world.

The children took turns standing in the library next to their "buttons" which visitors could step on to activate the story of the figure.

Among the wax figures were Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Mary McLeod Bethune, Nelson Mandela, and many other worthy people. 

The International Community School is a K-6 Charter and International Baccalaureate World School, advancing the promise of America by cultivating voice, courage and hope in refugee, immigrant and local children in DeKalb County, Georgia.