Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Blueprints with Four Drafts

Grade(s):

5, 6

Scale plan-view residential blueprints in multiple drafts; professional architect critique in process

Photographic Self-Portraits

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

Photographic portraits, taken by classmates as part of a project on identity

Give Bees a Chance

Grade(s):

6

Interviews with local beekeepers about the importance of bees and the impact of Colony Collapse Disorder

ReVOLT Main

ReVOLT

Grade(s):

8

Eighth grade students at King Middle School in Portland, Maine participated in an interdisciplinary expedition to reVOLT against the current limitations imposed by our current ways of using energy.

Nutville

Nutville

Grade(s):

9

Liam, a student in a 9th grade Math 1 class at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California created this video to fulfill an assignment for a product that would generate and show a connection between two sequences of n

Garden ABCs

Garden ABC's

Grade(s):

K

Kindergarten students at Tollgate Elementary in Aurora, Colorado participated in a year-long expedition focusing on plants, soil, worms and gardens.

Food For Thought

Food For Thought Cards

Grade(s):

2

Second-grade students at Grandview Elementary in Charleston, West Virginia used a meal journal to track the foods that they ate and determined that they did not eat enough fruits and vegetables.

Spiral of Theodorus

Grade(s):

8

This project was an integration between the math and art enrichment teachers that helped students cement the concept of Pythagorean Theorem and developed their protractor and ruler skills to a high level of precision.

Fantastic Frog Scientific Illustrations

Grade(s):

3

This project was designed to support their learning in Expedition (Module) #1: Wide World of Frogs. The project’s title is Fantastic Frog Scientific Illustrations.

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