LHS Social Studies Optional Summer Enrichment for 2023
Summer enrichment for Social Studies at LHS is a set of optional tasks that are designed to be fun, informative, skill building, and meaningful -- to support students’ retention of what they have learned this past year and prepare them for the academic year to come.
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. Using your school Google account, you must join the Summer Enrichment GOOGLE CLASSROOM (classroom code akwfixr) to get specific information on the different tasks and to submit them to the department.
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. Using your school Google account, you must join the Summer Enrichment GOOGLE CLASSROOM (classroom code akwfixr) to get specific information on the different tasks and to submit them to the department.
Summer Enrichment Tasks • 2023
Use the Social Studies Summer Enrichment Google Classroom (classroom code akwfixr)
to see details for each of the tasks and to submit them to the department to enter our raffle
Use the Social Studies Summer Enrichment Google Classroom (classroom code akwfixr)
to see details for each of the tasks and to submit them to the department to enter our raffle
- 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.