Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Frogs and Toads

Frog and Toad Tales

Grade(s):

3

Over the course of a six-week period, third-grade students at Eanes Elementary in Austin, Texas deeply explored the genres of informational and narrative nonfiction.

Where in the World is Moscow?

Where in the World is Moscow?

Grade(s):

2, 3

Second and third-graders at Palouse Prairie Charter School in Moscow, Idaho engaged in a 14-week social studies expedition in which students thought and acted like geographers and cartographers. The guiding question that drove the learning was:

Where in the World is Moscow? 

Worms

The Dirt on Worms

Grade(s):

K

Kindergarten students at Palouse Prairie Charter School in Moscow, Idaho studied the importance of worms during a learning expedition. 

E is for Extraordinary Life

E is for Extraordinary Life

Grade(s):

1, 2

First and second grade students at Pocatello Community Charter School in Pocatello, Idaho designed an alphabet book as a final product for an expedition on Monarch butterflies.

Sea Creatures

Sea Creatures Portraits and Stories

Grade(s):

3

Sea Creatures and Portraits Stories audio ebook is one of the final products of an eight-week long third-grade project at Explorer Elementary Charter School in San Diego, California called S.O.S.

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.

Slithering Snake Stories

Slithering Snake Stories

Grade(s):

2

This eBook was created by second grade students at Conservatory Lab Charter School in Boston, Massachusetts as part of a learning expedition (long-term interdisciplinary study) of snakes.

Rock Creek Treasure Hunt

Grade(s):

1

Maps and clues that create a treasure hunt at Rock Creek Park

Nature Numbers

Grade(s):

Pre-K, K

Photographs of numbers represented in nature are used in basic arithmetic.

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