Student Work
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato
- Project Based Learning
- Discovery Learning
- Inquiry Based Learning
- Rigorous Authentic Tasks
- Conceptual Learning
- Data Driven Instruction
- Cooperative Learning Groups
- Technology Integration
- Common Core Based lessons
Science
Biome Exploration: create a presentation about your biome, a hypothesis of what an animal needs to survive in the biome and a never before seen animal that would be able to survive in the biome. Justify your animals attributes and how it meets your hypothesis.
Math
Proportions: create a road trip using only a map of America, calculate the total cost of rental car, gas, food and hotel expenses for your trip. End product should include a day by day itinerary and itemized budget. Justify all your choices using pre-algebra logic.
Social Studies
Current Events: choose, research and creatively present findings for a current environmental issue. Make sure to include facts, the problems it causes and student made solutions for how to fix the issue.
Language Arts/ELD
Descriptive, informative and persuasive Writing: Integrated learning from unit on penguins to write individual student books about penguins. Writing should be descriptive and informative and include a page that convinces the reader that penguins would make the perfect pet.
