Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Local Habitat Survey and Animal Research

Grade(s):

Pre-K

Student research, drawings and sculptures of animals in local environments created at a nature center

Collecting Nature's Alphabet

Grade(s):

K

Photographs of letters found in nature or created out of sticks and other natural materials

Verde

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

A literary magazine produced by high school students in Palo Alto, CA

Kids Book of Poetry

Grade(s):

1

Book of poetry includes "name" poems, "my senses" poems and "how-to" poems

Honor for All: Japanese American Experience

Grade(s):

7

Mini Books: Interviews with Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II

Deer Watercolor

Grade(s):

6

Watercolor painting used to create a set of note cards

Reshaping Rochester

Grade(s):

6

Data report of city-wide survey as part of campaign to rewater Erie Canal in Rochester, NY

Shared Space

A Shared Space: Biodiversity and the Tijuana River Watershed

Grade(s):

7

Seventh grade students at High Tech Middle Chula Vista created this book to discover and document the diversity of living organisms seen daily around their school.

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.

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