Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom
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Instructions about how to tie knots as well as information on their origin and use, with photos
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Manual for raising chickens that includes articles, photographs, illustrations and essays
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Fictional speeches written by students in the voice of real historical leaders with symbolic illustrations
Magazine about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871
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Field guide about snakes; created by a single student as an independent project
Field guide to the marine organisms of the intertidal zone of Casco Bay
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Note cards of the Boston Harbor Islands with illustrations and historical information
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Field guide to local birds with original taxonomic categories and hand-written, kid-centered descriptions
A seventh grade student at the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences in Santa Fe, New Mexico created this bilingual picture book as a final product of a yearlong “Roots & Wings” immigration expedition.