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School Level: Middle school

Art Saves The Whale!

This multi-grade art project had students create sea creatures out of recycled materials.

Play It By Ear Project

Students partnered with the SoCal Beep Baseball Association to design soldered equipment to make the game more available.

Tempered

Students learned about music, rhythm, and self-awareness by creating instruments from objects made of glass.

Comic Con Project

With the collaboration of a comic book artist community partner, students wrote and designed their own comics

Habia Una Vez

Students engaged in an interdisciplinary project exploring indigenous cultures, delving into the impacts of colonization and creating constellations inspired by storytelling traditions

What I Didn’t Say Puppet Project

This blacklight neon puppet show started with the essential question: “Is there a moment in your life when you wished you had spoken up?”

Sharing Seeds

Students studied local plants and wrote seed paper books to be put into neighborhood Little Free Libraries

The Chimera Project

Students examined folklore, myth, symbolism, and cultural traditions through making their own hybrid animals

Breaking Free

Students explored the effects of addiction and acquired billboard space to spread awareness

Two Sides to a Screen

Students took a deep look into screens to see how they can both negatively and positively affect our lives

VersUS

The central idea of this project was to use the city itself as a text and students captured the details of the journey through photography and journaling

Know Thyself

Students learned about mathematical patterns like the Golden ratio and how it can be discovered in nature, art, architecture, and even our own bodies

Light of Life

This project heavily focused on using food as text, a form of media accessible for students from all dispositions; everybody’s gotta eat!

Bento

Students used words and images to express themselves through their experiences, passions, past memories, adventures, beliefs, sayings, dreams and more! 

(In)Equity by Design

Sixth graders explored data related to their own phenotype data through the lens of major moments in U.S. history.

Mathigami

Mathigami is a program designed at the University of San Diego by Perla …

AbleGamerz

What does ‘disabled’ mean, and how does it affect one’s perceived value in society?

Ease on Down the Road

Students partnered with different non-profits around San Diego to help spread their messages to the community.

A New Life

Students began by researching the countries of the refugees and immigrants that they …

LEGO Carnival

Everyone loves a good carnival, especially the rides! In addition to adrenaline, fun …

In Their Skin

“All too often we focus on our immediate impressions when considering other’s …

Zoomanity

In this nine-week project, students worked in groups of four to design an enclosure for …

Digital Storytelling

Students created digital stories about a defining moment, a message, or a lesson learned …

Immigration Podcasts

Eighth grade humanities students explored historical waves of immigration, focusing on …

Urban Ecology

What is urban ecology? How can humans create sustainable and efficient modern urban …

Aboriginal Art

Middle school students studied the Aboriginal Art form, including non-naturalistic …

Living History

Project Cards provide quick glimpses of inspiring projects designed by teachers and realized in collaboration with students.

Schooling Fish

At the start of this project, students raised rainbow trout …

Give Me Shelter

We examined the issues of resource availability, equity, and access.

Call Sign: Courage

Students collaborated with the USS Midway museum to capture the stories of Naval …

The Lantern Project

In this project, the entire 6th grade learned about geometry, unit rate, expenses and …

Who Am I?

In this interdisciplinary project, students examined several different facets of their …

#Hashtag Film Project

Students examined the role of the media in their lives and how they can use the media to …
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