Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Beautiful and Yummy

Grade(s):

1, 2

Mini book describes the process for growing basil, making pesto and making pasta from scratch

Nature Numbers

Grade(s):

Pre-K, K

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

End of Year Fashion Show

End of Year Fashion Show

Grade(s):

K

As part of their Clothes topic, Kindergarten students at St. Paul's School organized a fashion show to be their end of year presentation to the school community. Outfits were completely done by the pupils from beginning to end.

Home of Collette Brule – Floors 1 and 2

Grade(s):

5, 6

Scale architectural blueprints of a home for a fictional character, critiqued by professional architects

Whale of a Project

Whale of a Project

Grade(s):

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Elementary students (1st-6th) in a Significant Support Needs (SSN) special education class engaged in an expedition centered around the Sanctuary Ocean Count Project in Hawaii to learn about whales, culminating in a multi-disciplinary project with the SSN teacher, Speech Language Pathologist (SLP

Food for Thought

Grade(s):

6

Sixth grade students at High Tech Middle Chula Vista in San Diego, California created this cookbook as part of a project focused on why and how to make healthy food choices.

Healthy Snacks Recipe Book

Grade(s):

1, 2

Bilingual cookbook based on students' knowledge of the food pryamid and healthy snacks

Redrawing the World

Redrawing the World

Grade(s):

7

This project was part of an interdisciplinary expedition entitled Global Citizenship. As part of this study in math, students were asked to create a scale drawing using a statistic other than land mass or population in order to visualize how countries in the world supported the statistic.

Home of Ivy Olcott

Grade(s):

5, 6

Scale architectural blueprints of a home for a fictional character, critiqued by professional architects

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