From Florence to Tryon: Teachers bring Italian culture home to third graders

From Florence to Tryon: Teachers bring Italian culture home to third graders

The telescopes third graders at Tryon Elementary School decorated this fall weren’t inspired by pictures in a textbook. They were inspired by teachers who stood in the Galileo Museum in Florence, Italy, just months earlier, studying the very innovations their students would soon recreate. Students learned about space exploration and how Galileo perfected the telescope. They created Galileo-inspired telescopes, complete with colorful prints or dr…