LHS Social Studies Optional Summer Assignments for 2022
The summer enrichment assignments for Social Studies at LHS are a set of optional tasks that are designed to be fun, informative, skill building, and meaningful for students’ retention of what they have learned this past year.
You might ask yourself, “What do I get by doing optional social studies tasks during the summer?” Well there are a lot of things you get out of it:
You must join the Summer Enrichment GOOGLE CLASSROOM (classroom code jcnze6c) to get specific information on the different tasks and to submit them to the department.
Click here for lists to help you find museums, walking tours, and history/social studies books to enrich your summer.
You might ask yourself, “What do I get by doing optional social studies tasks during the summer?” Well there are a lot of things you get out of it:
- You will make your mom and/or dad and/or nana (you get the picture) happy that you are doing something serious with your time;
- It will give you something structured to do that isn’t your job (if you are working);
- It will really impress your teachers in the fall;
- It will help you retain what you’ve learned in all your courses;
- It will make you smarter and a better person; and,
- The Social Studies Department will hold a raffle at the end of the summer for gift cards and other prizes! Everything that you turn in gets you an entry for the raffle.
You must join the Summer Enrichment GOOGLE CLASSROOM (classroom code jcnze6c) to get specific information on the different tasks and to submit them to the department.
Click here for lists to help you find museums, walking tours, and history/social studies books to enrich your summer.
Summer Enrichment Assignments/Tasks • 2022
Use the Social Studies Summer Enrichment
Google Classroom (classroom code jcnze6c)
to see details for each of the assignments
and to submit submit them to the department
Use the Social Studies Summer Enrichment
Google Classroom (classroom code jcnze6c)
to see details for each of the assignments
and to submit submit them to the department
- Participate in a scavenger hunt around Lowell to find art connected to Lowell History.
- Take a series of selfies of you reading a physical (paper!) book on a history topic in various locales around your neighborhood (or, even, different rooms where you live), from start to finish of the book. Add a short book review to your selfies.
- Visit a museum in Lowell or Greater Boston and create a news article about the museum with pictures of the museum and the student(s) who visited it.
- Attend the Lowell Folk Festival with family and/or friends. Do some research and write a paragraph about the history of the type of dance or music, or both that you saw.
- Take any historical walking tour in the Greater Boston Area. Create a 5-minute video with commentary as you walk it.
- Create an oral history of your family's arrival in Lowell or about your neighborhood. At least three interviews recorded with a paragraph about what new things you learned.
- Visit a Lowell City Council meeting or another community-based organization meeting and report on what you saw and what you think about it.
- Report on two cultures (based on an ethnicity, religion, country of origin) that are around you, but you don't know much about, and record a podcast about what you have learned.
- Click here for our suggested list of summer readings in history and museums to visit online or in person. You can use this list whether or not you sign up for the Social Studies Summer Google Classroom.