Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Kurare

Grade(s):

8

Fictional account of a young female slave who is a healer

The Whole Meal

The Whole Meal Cookbook

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

High Tech High students in San Diego, California explored issues about food stemming from the simple question of “should I eat that?” as part of their studies in Humanities and Biology.

Life Changing Stories: GSMS Bilingual Voices

Grade(s):

6, 7, 8

View Life Changing Stories: GSMS Bilingual Voice here to view the full project.

A Little More Than Just People

Grade(s):

8

Interviews and photographs with people who work on behalf of their local community

Siteology

Siteology

Grade(s):

11

Students at High Tech High Media Arts School in San Diego, California took part in a project called Siteology. Siteology explores all that is a part of San Diego's cultural DNA.

This is Why I Cry

Grade(s):

8

Fictional account of a former slave who escaped

Achieving Equality

Achieving Equality: Student Profiles of American Changemakers

Grade(s):

10, 11, 12

Forty students from the first integrated high school in the United States—Lowell High School in Massachusetts—sought to shed light on a few of the many men and women who have worked to create a more perfect union. They produced Achieving Equality, a book of prose and photography. 

San Diego Bay: A Call for Conservation

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

Field guide to the San Diego Bay featuring ecological aspects of the bay; forward by E.O. Wilson

Pepe's Journey

Pépe's Journey to the United States: El Viaje De Pepe A Los Estados Unidos

Grade(s):

7

A seventh grade student at the Santa Fe School for the Arts and Sciences in Santa Fe, New Mexico created this bilingual picture book as a final product of a yearlong “Roots & Wings” immigration expedition.

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