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Photos: Classroom Coney Island at Ferry
For the second year in a row, a teacher in Grosse Pointe Public Schools converted his classroom into a coney restaurant as a lesson in economics. Last year, the restaurant was at Monteith and this year, at Ferry Elementary.
In a recent economics lesson, fourth and fifth graders at Ferry Elementary School converted their magnet classroom into a student-operated coney restaurant. The students designed, organized and tranformed the classroom. They served more than 150 customers in the few hours the restaurant was open. Customers included fellow students, school officials, district Superintendent Tom Harwood, families of students and others. James Fisher, the 4/5 magnet teacher at Ferry Elementary, uses the restaurant as an integrated language arts and economics lesson. The problem-based learning project offers the students the experience of operating a business, Fisher said. This is the second year Fisher has used the idea in his classroom. Last year he taught …
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