Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Bills and Gills

Bills and Gills Field Journal and Nonfiction Narrative

Grade(s):

4, 5

Students in the 4th and 5th grade Crews at Sierra Expeditionary Learning School in Truckee, California studied bird and fish species of the Sierra Nevada and created field journal entries as well as a non-fiction narrative to accompany it.  Students followed a performance task in which they obser

Advocating for Water

Grade(s):

3

For this final product we created brochures to pass out to our community for celebration of learning. Attached are the brochures.

Journals of Trip to New York City

Grade(s):

5, 6

Collage-style journals from a mutli-day trip to NYC

E is for Egypt

Grade(s):

6

Children's alphabet book about Egypt; informed by critique and revision

A Child's Guide to Riverhill Farm

Grade(s):

3, 4

Educational coloring book designed to teach children about a local farm

Invasive Species in Maine

Grade(s):

7

A field guide to invasive species in Maine

The Land of the Unknown

Grade(s):

6

Program for an original play about ancient Egypt that includes student research

The Fish and their Gifts

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

Dual language (Hawaiian/English) children's book; original fable with professional artist critique

Dwarf Dwelling

Grade(s):

5, 6

Cross-sectional drawing of a fictional underground kingdom of dwarves

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