For decades, California fourth-graders marked a familiar ritual, collecting Popsicle sticks, cardboard and craft store items to build scale models of the state’s historic missions. In San Diego County ...

For decades, fourth-grade students in California have had one project that has taken over dining room tables, required piles of popsicle sticks and kept parents and kids up at night completing it: ...

The fourth-grade tradition of building a California mission out of Popsicle sticks and sugar cubes is being pushed aside by the state as history lessons change to reflect all cultures and more ...

SAN GABRIEL (CBSLA.com) – It's lesson-over for a long-running education project in Southern California. The fourth grade requirement to build models of California missions is on its way to the history ...