Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

The Important Thing About Our Families...

Grade(s):

1

Book with student written and typed sentences about their families and photographic peer portraits

1853: 24 Hours in the Fight for Freedom

Grade(s):

4

Historical fiction highlighting slavery and women's rights; snapshots from a single day in 1853

Shifting Gears

Shifting Gears: Promoting Rochester's Two-Wheeled Revolution

Grade(s):

6

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. 

E is for Extraordinary Life

E is for Extraordinary Life

Grade(s):

1, 2

First and second grade students at Pocatello Community Charter School in Pocatello, Idaho designed an alphabet book as a final product for an expedition on Monarch butterflies.

Honesty

What Does It Mean To Be Honest?

Grade(s):

1, 2

Students in Lake Bluff’s MAC 1 East (multiage 1st and 2nd-grade classroom) were responsible for creating a presentation about honesty for their school wide community circle. 

Play The Game

Play The Game

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.

Bugs Tell a Story

Bugs Tell a Story: Healthy Habitats Along the Genesee River

Grade(s):

K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

In effort to raise awareness of the state of a local river, GCCS K-5 classes developed a schoolwide expedition focusing on the health of the Genesee River in the spring of 2017.

The Truth about Climate Change According to Kids

The Truth About Climate Change According to Kids

Grade(s):

3

Third-grade students at Presumpscot Elementary School studied climate change and its impact on the Coast of Maine (lobsters' life cycle) and our economy. 

Day of Change Book

Grade(s):

7

7th graders at ELMS embarked on a learning expedition to create positive change within their community. ELMS 7th graders were able to interview agents of change within their community and choose a cause that they wanted to work with on their journey to become an agent of change.

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