Interdisciplinary projects that live beyond the classroom

Wooden Spoons

Wooden Spoons

Grade(s):

9, 10, 11, 12

In the fall project for the 2015-2016 school year, high school students painstakingly designed, carved, and finished individual spoons or eating utensils that represented their family or personal identity.

Physnewtons

Grade(s):

12

Illustrated guide to the California State Physics Standards, with a reader's assessment as appendix

I Like the Color

Grade(s):

4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Hawaiian culture children's book on colors, written by a range of upper elementary - high school students

The Human Face of Human Rights

The Human Face of Human Rights

Grade(s):

10

Tenth-grade students at Casco Bay High School in Portland, Maine interviewed international refugees from human rights abuses and considered their courage and stories in writing and photography.

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. 

Adolescent Anatomy and Disease

Grade(s):

10

Book on adolescent health informed by working with medical students from Wright University

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.

Ron Berger

Orientation Video

Grade(s):

12

This short orientation video gives our users basic tools to navigate our project collection with ease.  

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.

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