Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Self Portraits

Grade(s):

1

Self-portrait covers for student portfolios, supported by peer critique

Seasons of Life

Grade(s):

6

Biography of an elder from a local nursing home created by two students who visited her there

Book Trading Cards

Grade(s):

5, 6

Sample trading cards of characters from various books; each part of a "book deck" of characters

Andy Goldsworthy Nature Art

Grade(s):

8

Student photographs of their artwork, inspired by the work of Andy Goldsworthy

Who We Are

Grade(s):

K

Mini book with self-portrait, peer-created clay sculpture, and student writing

Appalachian Storybank

The Appalachian Journey Storybank Project

Grade(s):

8

Eighth grade students at Evergreen Community Charter School in Asheville, North Carolina participated in an expedition called The Appalachian Journey where students investigated the history of southern Appalachia to describe, as historians do, the relationship between the Scotch Irish settlers of

The Amazing World Of Lobsters

The Amazing World of Lobsters

Grade(s):

3

Every year, third-grade students at Presumpscot Elementary School in Portland, Maine participate in a learning expedition on lobsters.

Highlands Ranch History Still Lives

Highland Ranch History Still Lives: A Children’s Tour of the Highlands Ranch Mansion

Grade(s):

2

After touring the Highlands Ranch Mansion,second-grade students at Fox Creek Elementary School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado collaborated with others to create a paragraph about a room in the mansion.

Scaling the Solar System

Scaling the Solar System into Downtown Asheville

Grade(s):

6

It is hard to grasp just how expansive our Solar System really is. As a way to make this abstract concept more realistic, sixth-grade students at Evergreen Community Charter School scaled the planets into downtown Asheville, North Carolina.

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