Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Meet Local Scientists

Grade(s):

5, 6

Book for young readers celebrating the work of local scientists, drawn from short student internships

Ocean Animals of Maine

Grade(s):

K

Field guide to local ocean animals, informed by research at the ocean next to the school

Dried Tears

Dried Tears: Voices from the Time of Slavery

Grade(s):

5

Fifth grade students at the Polaris Charter Academy in Chicago, Illinois created this book as part of a study on slavery in the United States in the 1800s.

Aztec Indian Portraits

Aztec Indian Portraits

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

Art I-IV students at Spearman High School in Spearman, Texas created these colored pencil drawings as part of a co-curricular project in social studies and art.

Praying Mantis

Insects - The Praying Mantis

Grade(s):

K

Kindergarten students at the Odyssey School of Denver worked on creating informational science books featuring different insects.

Dissections

Dissections - Emily

Grade(s):

10

Students created scientific journals during an expedition on evolution. This project gave them the opportunity to have a hands-on exploration of the animal kingdom and create a scientific journal with accurate diagrams and information like the ones kept by Darwin and Da Vinci.

Ant Maps

Ant Maps

Grade(s):

1, 2

First and second grade crew studied how communities interact through the lens of ants.

Kids Talk Climate

Kids Talk Climate

Grade(s):

6

Climate change has been called the defining issue of the next generation. As students grapple with the chemical and physical science associated with how humans are impacting our climate, they have one question: what can we do?

Puss in Boots and the Adventure

Grade(s):

K, 1

This is a weather book written by a first grader in multiple drafts as a culminating project for the end of the weather unit. The entire class wrote books, and all had drafts and a rubric for their illustrations and stories.

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