Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Humans of Cambridge

Humans of Cambridge

Grade(s):

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Nuvu students in the Cinemagraph studio learned how to create their own cinemagraphs—digital photos that include a subtle and looped movement.

Beekeepers

Beekeeping

Grade(s):

7

These products were created by 7th-grade middle school students from Maplewood Richmond Heights Middle School. They harvest honey and beeswax from four beehives that they work to maintain.

Juxtapose

Juxtapose2

Grade(s):

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

In collaboration with renowned choreographer Heidi Latsky, students designed wearables for an installation for performers with a disability and which express aspects of the performer’s passion or character trait, or an experience they have had.

The Choice to Serve

The Choice to Serve

Grade(s):

7

Meadow Glen Middle School has a student population of approximately 1,100 students and around 370 seventh-grade students worked together to produce this magazine.

Work Helpers In Our Detroit Community

Grade(s):

K

The Kindergarten crews at Detroit Achievement Academy started the year learning about identity and community.

Fossil Hunter

Grade(s):

3

The Fossil Hunter poems and artwork were created by third-grade students at Big Pine Elementary as part of their Fossils Tell of Earth Long Ago learning expedition. The poetry and art projects were included in a culmination fossil journal and were displayed at the Celebration of Learning.

Diseased

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

Fictional, artistic collage-style journal about an HIV positive young woman with tuberculosis

Greenprint

Grade(s):

9

Report of energy audits of schools with recommended energy-saving renovations that the city adopted

Do the Green Thing

Grade(s):

7, 8

Book of tips on energy efficiency created to guide decisions in a school renovation

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