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Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Wildlife of the Texas Panhandle

Wildlife of the Texas Panhandle

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

High School students at Spearman High School in Spearman, Texas designed these 18 x 24 pastel paintings as part of a co-curricular project in science and art. Students learned about the habitats, anatomy, hunting, behaviors and growth of wildlife of the Texas Panhandle.

E is for Extraordinary Life

E is for Extraordinary Life

Grade(s):

1, 2

First and second grade students at Pocatello Community Charter School in Pocatello, Idaho designed an alphabet book as a final product for an expedition on Monarch butterflies.

Chair Design

Chair Design Without Adhesives

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

Art I high school students at the Liberal Arts and Science Academy in Austin, Texas designed cardboard chairs as part of a co-curricular project in physics, geometry and art.

Tower Garden

Tower Garden Explorations

Grade(s):

4

Throughout a 16 week long Design Thinking Project, Grade 4 students at Elm Street School in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, focused on the driving question, “How might we as young entrepreneurs utilize our Tower Garden to benefit the nutrition and overall health of others in our community?”

Sea Creatures

Sea Creatures Portraits and Stories

Grade(s):

3

Sea Creatures and Portraits Stories audio ebook is one of the final products of an eight-week long third-grade project at Explorer Elementary Charter School in San Diego, California called S.O.S.

Transportation

Transportation: A Moving Experience

Grade(s):

1

First graders at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji, Minnesota participated in an Expedition entitled Transportation: A Moving Experience. 

Adaptations

Adaptations

Grade(s):

12

Twelfth-grade students at High Tech High in San Diego, California presented silent film productions with live sound performances at the Sushi Performance Art Center in downtown San Diego.

Nyumbani Means Home

Nyumbani Means Home: A Collection of Collaborative Poetry

Grade(s):

7, 8

Junior High students at Anser Charter School in Boise, Idaho co-authored this book of poetry with their refugee partners from the Hillside Junior High as part of a larger project to understand the growing population of refugees in Boise.

A Day in May

A Day in May

Grade(s):

5

Fifth grade students at the Alamo Navajo Community School in Magdalena, New Mexico researched living things in the Alamo Desert to learn how plants, birds, animals and insects adapt to their desert environment.

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