Worthington Village Model

This model was created by fifth graders at Wilson Hill Elementary School for a Worthington Bicentennial project called "Two Centuries of Growth and Change: The Worthington Community Buildings". Working in small groups of 3 to 5, three classes of fifth grade students grappled with the mathematics of scale, researched events of significant impact to the entire community, dug into the history of the buildings, searched the Worthington Memory for period photographs and other documentation, visited the buildings in their present-day condition, and created a visual timeline using the models. Students worked on the project over four months to create the village model. Students then wrote reports about each structure and compiled them into a book, including photographs of the model.