Community Plant Story Matchboard

by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Grade 7Ages 12 to 13·Literacy·Worksheet
Community Plant Story Matchboard

The class pools every story collected across years and builds one board.

The accumulation is what makes it work. Fifteen stories is a set. Sixty is a picture of what a community knows, and patterns appear that no single interview shows.

The page has the board structure, a story card format, and analysis prompts. It also has a maintenance note, since a board that grows across cohorts needs someone to own it. Ours is a wall in the corridor and each year adds to it, which means current students argue with cards written by people they have never met.

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Founder and curriculum author

Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education

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