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Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Adaptations

Adaptations

Grade(s):

12

Twelfth-grade students at High Tech High in San Diego, California presented silent film productions with live sound performances at the Sushi Performance Art Center in downtown San Diego.

Nyumbani Means Home

Nyumbani Means Home: A Collection of Collaborative Poetry

Grade(s):

7, 8

Junior High students at Anser Charter School in Boise, Idaho co-authored this book of poetry with their refugee partners from the Hillside Junior High as part of a larger project to understand the growing population of refugees in Boise.

A Day in May

A Day in May

Grade(s):

5

Fifth grade students at the Alamo Navajo Community School in Magdalena, New Mexico researched living things in the Alamo Desert to learn how plants, birds, animals and insects adapt to their desert environment.

Motive and Motif

Motive and Motif

Grade(s):

12

Twelfth-grade art and literature students at High Tech High in San Diego, California visited the San Diego Museum of Art to study different artists. Each student selected a painting and researched the artist’s motive for creating the work and the motifs that inspired them.

If You Find a Rock

If You Find A Rock...

Grade(s):

4

Throughout a 12-week expedition on the geology of the Genesee River, 4th graders at the Genesee Community Charter School in Rochester, New York focused on the questions: "How has the area we live in been shaped over time?" "How do scientists know that the earth has changed over time?" What might

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. 

Colorado Fish

Colorado Fish Field Guide Poster

Grade(s):

1, 2

First and second-grade students at the Pikes Peak School of Expeditionary Learning in Falcon, Colorado researched specific freshwater fish within the Colorado area. They investigated and wrote about their habitats, their feeding habits, and their physical adaptations.

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

Welcome

¡Bienvenidos a Meadow Glen Middle School!

Grade(s):

6, 7, 8

Spanish Novice B3 classes at Meadow Glen Middle School in Lexington, South Carolina, participated in the eighth-grade expedition with the Spanish Case Study, "New? How Can I Help You?"

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