Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

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.

Siteology

Siteology

Grade(s):

11

Students at High Tech High Media Arts School in San Diego, California took part in a project called Siteology. Siteology explores all that is a part of San Diego's cultural DNA.

I Believe in You

I Believe in You

Grade(s):

12

In an “Introduction to Rhetoric” unit, Seniors at WHEELS studied various commencement and convocation speeches and wrote rhetorical analysis essays around the essential question, “How can words compel action?”  Then, using a newly acquired rhetorical toolkit, students crafted motivational speeches for incoming ninth grade students at WHEELS.

Beauty of the Palouse

The Beauty of the Palouse

Grade(s):

4

The fourth-grade crew at Palouse Prairie Charter School embarked on a four-month long journey to write a story that had not yet been told. First, students learned about basic geologic processes to understand many different ways that geology shapes our world.

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.

Every Picture Tells a Story

Grade(s):

1

Book of photographs city of infrastructure; includes reflections on what makes a high-quality photograph

Kurare

Grade(s):

8

Fictional account of a young female slave who is a healer

Architectural Features Cards

Grade(s):

5

Trading cards with illustrations of historic architectural features in Boston, Philadelphia and Rochester

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