For decades, California fourth-graders ... parents who helped their own kids through the project remember building missions themselves in fourth grade, by gluing Popsicle sticks or stacking ...

The fourth-grade ... people of California. "What are students learning by building model missions?" asks Nancy McTygue, executive director of California History-Social Science Project and ...

For decades, fourth-grade students in California have had one project that has taken over dining room tables, required piles of popsicle sticks and kept parents and kids up at night completing it ...

The fourth-grade mission project, a rite of passage for elementary students for decades, may be on its way out. California’s new history and social science framework, passed by the state Board ...