Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

SB Kids Local Treasures

Grade(s):

1

The SB Kids Local Treasures project was taught in a fully remote first grade class during the Covid-19 pandemic. The driving question for this project is “How can we do the work of journalists and illustrators to celebrate and support local treasures in our community?”

Bug Research Trading Cards

Grade(s):

2

Each second-grade student chose an insect to research. Students completed 6 research questions in order to become experts on their insect. Using the knowledge gained during their research, students were asked to make a "Gettin' Buggy" trading card.

Drafts of a Cave Home

Grade(s):

5, 6

Cross-sectional illustrations of a prehistoric cave home through multiple drafts with peer critique

Operation Kidfit Recommendation Report

Grade(s):

6

Report with recommendations for the design of a health exhibition for Rochester Science Museum

Get Your Blues On

Grade(s):

4

Poems that were used for blues songs, inspired by the Great Migration, with collage art

Colorado Bird Project

Grade(s):

K, 1

Hand-bound books about the unique features that make a bird a bird

A Historical Walk through Massachusetts

Grade(s):

3

Book with illustrations and descriptions of local colonial history created in research teams

What’s Happening in the Bog?

Grade(s):

6

Field guide to a local bog that includes written descriptions, photographs and illustrations

More Voices of U.S.

Grade(s):

8

Book of interviews and stories about immigration that explore the question, "Why do people move?"

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