Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Water Wise Billboard

Grade(s):

6

Sixth grade students transferred knowledge about the properties and movement of water through the Earth's hydrosphere and grappled with the content of the hydrosphere on a smaller scale: our local Root Pike Watershed. Students took a deeper look at their watershed: Lake Michigan.

Chamber Orchestra Ensemble State Level Performance

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

Chamber Orchestra is an after-school ensemble that meets for an hour once a week. The ensemble is come one come all (non-auditioned) open to students grades 9-12. This performance is at the State level Solo & Ensemble contest through the Wisconsin School Music Association.

Four Freedoms Expedition

Grade(s):

8

At King Middle School in Portland, Maine, eighth-grade students explore the concept of freedom by first looking at Norman Rockwell’s famous illustrations of the four freedoms, printed in the Saturday Evening Post in 1943.

Poetry, Poets and Becoming Writers/Wabanaki Studies

Grade(s):

4

Students engage in Units 1 and 2 of the 4th grade module "Poetry, Poets and Becoming Writers" to unpack what makes a poem a poem and explain what inspires writers to write poetry. Concurrently, students learn about the Wabanaki tribe to understand their daily life and culture.

Stories in the Sky

Grade(s):

1

Stories in the Sky:

Why do authors write about the sun, moon and stars?

What patterns can we observe in the sky?

 

By The First Grade Class, Mrs. Harris

In My Perfect World: An Exploration of Human Rights

Grade(s):

5

Guiding Questions:

1. What are human rights and how can they be threatened?

2. How can we raise awareness of human rights?

 

Water and Math: Distance, the Pythagorean Theorem, and Scale

Grade(s):

8

The eighth grade teaching team at ASCEND planned an interdisciplinary expedition around water. In science, students conducted water testing, in humanities they created podcasts from interviews of people’s memories associated with water, and did watercolors in art.

Real, Represent, Reconstruct

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

Who is the real you? & How do you show it to the world? Where do you belong? & Where historically, has access been blocked from your people? In this class, we will deeply dig into how society depicts us versus how we portray ourselves.

All About Animals

Grade(s):

K

Students used the writing process to research animals and its habitat. During the writing process, students illustrated, labeled and wrote about their animal through multiple drafts.

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