Tag: Elementary School

Come Play With Us

Patricia Lim and Stacey Stevenson created an inquiry-based project about the nature of play, in the hopes it could ultimately transform the underused space into a nature playground.

Laughter Project

In this hybrid project done in the 2020-2021 school year, fifth graders learned what makes them funny…

The Dream Project

Why are we here if not to dream? In this project, students engaged in conversations …

Healthy Me

In this project, students explored all about healthy living. First graders became …

Big Ideas from Small Creatures

First grade scientists in Room 2 have been interested in garden creatures for a long …

Ideas That Changed the World

Fourth Grade students recreated a World’s Fair, complete with their own working …

One Drop at a Time

There were three major components to this project: A class novel study of the novel …

Wise Kids Traditions

We students thought it pretty important to think about one of the most critical things …

Plant and Insect Life Cycles

Second Graders became botanists and entomologists as they cared for and cultivated plant …

You Say You Want a Revolution?

In this action-packed eight-week project, students used primary and secondary resources …

Superheroes Unite!

The Superhero project explored what superhero qualities each student possessed and how …

Staircases to Nowhere

Seniors used physics, art, and carpentry to plan and build model and life-sized …

The Bee Project

Why do we need honey bees and how do they affect our world? In order to answer these …

Explorers of the World

This project introduced Kindergarteners to exploration, observation, mapping, multiple …

What is your Everest?

After reading the novel Peak, by Roland Smith, fifth grade students studied the …

Project IDEATE

Students explored the essential question, “How Can Innovative Ideas Make a Difference?” …

Understanding Habits of Heart and Mind

Second graders investigated the question, “How do Members of Our Community Show Care and …

What’s the Story – an Art Project

This project was designed to develop children’s painting and drawing skills as well as …

Raptors for Rodents

We were literally seeing mice run across our floors during our morning meetings.

Choose Your Own Adventure

Students explored examples of risk taking from personal and state history, through a …

Matter All Around

First Grade Scientists explored the world of matter all around them! They wondered…

Are You Fitter Than a 5th Grader?

Over the course of 11 weeks, 5th grade students studied the human body, learned about …

Culture in the first two weeks of school (and after)

High Tech High Chula Vista director Edrick Macalaguim shares what he’s learned about building and restoring classroom culture from over 20 years working in schools

Increase Student Ownership with a Student-Facing Project Map

A PBL scaffolding tool for communicating the project road map

When Place Shapes the Product: The Genius of Place-based Education in PBL

Genesee Community Charter School is centering students in a place-based curriculum provides them with a deeper understanding of…

Morning Meeting: Rooting the Day in Community and Social Justice

Mara Gonzales ditched the “Would You Rather” questions in her Morning Meetings and now starts the day with discussions about recognizing privilege…

Liberty Station: Then and Now

We thought this project would be a great entry point for students to delve into learning …

Destruction and Restoration: A History of Sausal Creek

As a culminating task, student docents led families and other community members on a …

Engineering A Mindset

Exploring An Elementary Engineering Classroom

The House That Built Me

After spending almost two weeks building a house from the ground up, I learned how to…

Syrian Refugee Simulation

In this student-created and student-run simulation, community participants took on the …

Cyclic Machines

Seniors at HTHNC received a simple prompt: “Create a machine or kinetic art piece that …

Run Like A Girl: Don’t Judge Me

Recently, I asked my 5-year-old son “what does it mean to act like a girl?” He told me …

Toy Story

In the Toy Story project, second graders explored the essential question, “What is the …

Finding Inspiration From Beyond the Classroom

For students, engaging in one topic through multiple disciplines facilitates the kind of…

Sunflowers and Math

I don’t recall how long our class spent working on the art pieces or what we did before…

Echoes & Reflections

Jill, the principal, was standing by the front desk at Explorer Elementary. She was petite…