Kindergarteners need to be scaffolded too. When teaching Kindergarteners, some teachers stick with the minimum of the state standards because they think, “this is their first formal year of schooling. They just need to learn the minimum that they can build upon later.” However, after hearing the Kindergarten teachers talk today about their DBQ lesson and their use of the words “artifacts” and the introduction of the topic “cause-and-effect,” it really demonstrates how Kindergarteners have such a capacity to learn and be challenged. Using harder words with them, or introducing harder concepts like DBQs in the classroom is so important even for Kindergarteners because it allows them to instill a self-fulfilling prophecy where if they think they can or have the opportunity to do something more challenging, they succeed with it. Like the teachers said, these students took this opportunity and ran with it. They spent ample time trying to recreate the pictures and even compared drawings with their peers. I think it is especially important for students of that age to be given opportunities to stretch their knowledge in the way that a DBQ provides.