Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom
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Collection of essays in which students reflect on their personal relationship with their chosen icon
6
Report about using skate parks to strengthen community services in Rochester, NY
3
Booklet on how Rochester became to be known as the Flower City; modeled after the Farmer's Almanac
7, 8
Report analyzing the costs/benefits of alternative energy sources for the school w/local field research
5, 6
Fictional life and career of a scientist, descriptions and artifacts
1
Book with student written and typed sentences about their families and photographic peer portraits
4
Historical fiction highlighting slavery and women's rights; snapshots from a single day in 1853
Using the bicycle as a lens for a year-long focus, sixth grade students at the Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester, New York learned how they can make a difference in their own community by engaging in community activism.
A community garden project created by sixth-grade students at Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School