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CSAS Elementary School
Syracuse, NY 13207
CSAS Middle School
Liverpool, NY 13088
Friday, December 3rd, 2021—In early December, Syracuse Academy of Science and Citizenship 5th and 6th grade students were taught a very valuable life lesson about the importance of perspective and empathy. For this class group project, students were given a shoe which represented a person, and its situation. The students were then tasked with coming up with not only a perspective for the situation, but how to empathize with the person (or shoe in this matter) would feel.
The Atoms quickly learned that perspective is the ability to see a situation from another person’s viewpoint, while empathy is the ability to understand how someone is feeling.
What a creative lesson, and opportunity for the students to understand and learn two important skills - perspective and empathy. Keep up the great work, Atoms!