Quarantine put a big hold on the announcement of our Barrow Peace Prize. However, we finally were able to come together in a different way to celebrate the end of this special project. We wanted to still have a live announcement as we usually do, but we knew that all students would not be able to join us in person. I reached out to our friends at Flipgrid and we came up with a plan to record our individual parts of the announcement using Flipgrid and adding the videos for easy viewing and sharing in a Flipgrid mixtape.
I had already brought the awards home to work on over spring break, so I tracked down some envelopes and addressed them all to the award winners. On the day of the announcement, I visited the Post Office and mailed all the awards so that I could let students know to be on the lookout for them.
At 2PM on April 29, we met together on Zoom. The 2nd grade classroom teachers, art teacher, principal, assistant principal, instructional coach, counselor, family engagement specialist, and over 30 2nd grade students came together via Zoom to celebrate the announcement.
We looked at where our voices had reached on an analytics map. Student voices were heard in over 210 locations around the world and 6 different continents.
We recognized:
Prolific Persuaders –
-For using your persuasive techniques to encourage an authentic audience to vote for your civil rights leader.
Outstanding Openers –
-For using a creative hook to capture your audience’s attention from the very beginning of your persuasive writing.
Dynamic Designers –
-For creating an inspiring piece of art to accompany your persuasive writing and visually engage your audience.
This 3D-printed award was given to all of the designers plus all of the students who researched the winner of the 2025 Peace Prize.
Finally, we came to the moment students had been waiting for. After more than, 1,000 votes from over 210 locations around the world, the winner of the 2025 Barrow Peace Prize is………….
Jackie Robinson!
I’m so glad we were able to come together to close out this project and I hope that students enjoy getting awards in the mail. You can watch the virtual announcement on our Flipgrid Mixtape.
Each year our 2nd graders work on a project called the Barrow Peace Prize. Every student researches one of four people from black history and gathers facts from PebbleGo, Britannica, books, and a few other online resources. They use these facts to write a persuasive essay asking people to vote for their person to win the Barrow Peace Prize. The criteria for the prize is also determined by the students after learning about character traits. These essays are recorded in Flipgrid and are now ready for viewing. We ask people all over the world to watch these videos, listen to these student voices, and vote on which of the four people from Black History should win this year’s award: Jackie Robinson, Sojourner Truth, Martin Luther King Jr., or Harriet Tubman.
You can vote as many times as you like and you are welcome to share this link with everyone you know. If you choose to tweet about our project and share pictures of you or your class of students watching our videos, we hope you will tag @plemmonsa in your tweets so they can be shared with our Barrow students. If you use Instagram, please tag @barrowmediacenter We love to see how this project spreads around the world.
Voting is open now through March 13 at 12PM EST. Simply visit our Smore page, watch several videos, and then click the link to vote. We can’t wait to see who will win this year’s award.
Follow this link to vote!
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We love trying new things in our makerspace, so this February we decided to leap into Rubiks cubes. At AASL in Louisville, I visited the You Can Do the Cube booth and checked out their Rubiks cube lending program. You can check out sets of Rubiks cubes to create Rubiks cubes mosaics and simply pay for the shipping and handling each way.
In class at UGA, Gretchen’s students watched multiple videos on how to solve Rubiks cubes and worked to learn some strategies that would be helpful to our Barrow students. They also practiced designing their own small mosaics using the 3×3 cubes.
At Barrow, we selected some prepared mosaics from the You Can Do the Cube site. We chose Rosa Parks for our 3×3 and a flower for our 2×2. I measured out a grid on a piece of butcher paper and taped the individual mosaic pieces into the grid and numbered them. I made a second set of pieces that we numbered and cut out and put into an envelope. Students could select a picture out of the envelope, solve that picture, and place it onto the correct square in the grid.
For our open makerspace, teachers sign up students for a 30-minute slot on a Google document. They are signing up for all 6 Tuesday/Thursday sessions of Rubiks Cube. For this first session, students spent time exploring the cubes. I made a QR code for students to scan to watch tutorial videos about solving. Some followed these videos, while others learned from the strategies of friends and UGA students.
It was amazing to see how many students already knew some tips about solving Rubiks cubes because of their own practicing at home. We also downloaded an app on the iPads called Cube Solver that allows you to put in the colors on the cube and it shows you all the steps to solve the entire cube. Some students used this as a tool for learning more about the different turns required to solve.
Once students felt comfortable with the cube, they started solving actual pieces of the mosaic and adding it to our grid located on a large table in the back corner of the library. With so many students working on cubes during one makerspace and with so many students already talented in solving cubes, the mosaic started to take shape pretty quickly. By the end of the 2nd day of working on the mosaics, we had the Rosa Parks and flower mosaic done.
I had already prepared additional mosaics to work on: a dinosaur and Mona Lisa. We celebrated our achievement of solving the first mosaics and took some pictures. Then, it was time to start dismantling the mosaics and solving a new one.
Once we created 2 additional mosaics, I gave the students the option of designing their own small mosaics. They could do this alone or with a group. They sketched out their mosaic on grid paper first and then worked to solve and assemble the mosaic at tables. This would be a great way to extend this experience in future sessions because there wasn’t much time left.