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I gave a group of students a simple modelling project but they decided to take ownership in the product because each one wanted a copy to take to their college dorm after graduation. The result was surprising and looked like a prop that came right out of a motion picture.

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I gave a group of students a simple modelling project but they decided to take ownership in the product because each one wanted a copy to take to their college dorm after graduation. The result was surprising and looked like a prop that came right out of a motion picture.

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This was a project which we began in the summer of, who can remember which year. It really takes me back to the time that I, um forgot, never-mind, I'm off subject now, then aren't I? Never-mind. Never-Mind, that is one of the few lyrics from 'Smells Like Teen Spirit" which I could actually understand. As I understand, Kirk Cobaine was actually Marlan Brandos 🤬 love child with s

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Last year I had a student who took a photo assignment above and beyond the usual different angles of an object and created a "different world" with her photos.

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In Physics, we do a ton of labs and throughout the year have a few projects that really allow students to apply what they're learning. When we broke into groups for marble "roller coaster" construction, some groups really came together and collaborated so well which was evident by their finished products. It was awesome getting the see the students solve problems, think critically, and create imaginatively.

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My student was assigned a very simple project to be done on poster board.  He mad a 3D replica of his topic to show to the class.

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I had Adam in my Spanish 2 class.  It was his first year at Pearce and his assignment was to create a video about his daily routine in Spanish.  He acted out the scenes and even involved his family members to complete the video.  We watched the videos in class and his peers and I were amazed by the final product.  This was the moment that teachers dream of.  He set the bar very high for his peers.  That explains why he is now one of the top in his class.

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Hayden Giller (PHS's very own weatherman) asked me the very first day of school last year if we would be studying the weather in APES. He asked if he could teach it for me. How could I say no? He consulted with me several times and put together a very professional presentation.

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I had a group of students that were randomly selected together. It was a very diverse group of students who had probably not spoken a word to each other all year. At first they were very hesitant toward it each other but after a few minutes into it they all had established roles and were communicating.

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Students created fantastic presentations and games, like Enlightenment dating Game, Romantic music v. New classical (they actually played the pieces), and a challenging Bingo. Their only prompt was to provide an aspect of Enlightenment that was interesting to them

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I gave my students who were always on their computer playing games a new program used by engineers and had them figure it out using tutorials on youtube instead of a simpler program we had used in the past. These kids got really into it, had get togethers at their houses and created a very detailed CAD program plot of our theater with lighting instruments and rigging system. Their work is still used to send out to anyone using the auditorium at my old school.

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Students are grouped into mini-orchestras without a conductor and study, rehearse, polish and perform music completely on their own. They bond and are allowed to independently create music - a life-long skill/goal for them from a teacher perspective.

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My students were to select a world culture and read about one of the key leaders of that culture and create a power point presentation to share with the class. Several students took ownership of this project and impressed everyone.

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Students were to create a PSA either for or against the Greek Life on college campuses. One duo created a video that was well scripted, humorous, and backed with research. This was 3 years ago and I still use their video as an example!

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I had students record themselves acting out a scene from the Menaechmi, which we had been translating in class. They had free reign in their creativity regarding costumes, sets, etc. But they had to use the translations they had done in class. One group made a "hick/🤬" version, complete with accents, gender-bending costumes/parts, and recording on one of their family's farms. The whole class was rolling in laughter as we watched it, and the kids who made it were justifiably pleased with their product.

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I had my students (or should I say... OUR students!) stitch together a poem out of random lines that are supposed to be completely unrelated. This one group collaborated in the most creative way, arranging the nonsense in such a way that it resembled the Biblical story of Jesus Christ and the salvation of humanity. If you just looked at the poem without their explanation, you'd have no idea. But their explanation was actually completely on point. They did a great job of CONNECTing the words to a narrative.

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When students are given the opportunity to create, the end products can be amazing.

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I had a swimmer, Cole Mollard, who helped me coach my first year before we had a assistant coach. Cole worked with beginners, helped organize and plan the JV.  He went beyond my expectations. 

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I had a swimmer, Cole Mollard, who helped me coach my first year before we had a assistant coach. Cole worked with beginners, helped organize and plan the JV.  He went beyond my expectations. 

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Students took a project and excelled to the next level by using each other characters in their own diary entries and built a whole story together.

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I assigned students to design and program a game with certain requirements. This students researched and found information that we had not learned in class and made his game extremely interactive and advanced

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At the end of the year for our review students had to recreate each of the techniques in a grid but I had one student get rid of the grid and turn it into an amazing artwork that included all the techniques as one piece.

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I gave my students the opportunity to become mushing dogs when we studied the Iditarod in Elementary last year

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We had a website project where the students would make lines to have a "marble" roll down the line and knock off the targets. A couple of my students went ahead and got to Algebra 2 level questions and figured out how to do it!

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We had a web

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students were making shoes using a template.  One student took it to another level by creating a golden Harry Potter boot that could fly. She did the inside of the shoe in neon yellow, made wings, laces, all with such care and detail.

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Student community growth through involving younger students into high school student projects/experiences. The camaraderie is invaluable.

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I gave the students a project that I had never done, so I didn't have a previous students work to show as an example, one of my girls made sure she did her project so that I could have an example for next year

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I gave the students a project that I had never done, so I didn't have a previous students work to show as an example, one of my girls made sure she did her project so that I could have an example for next year

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In PAP Algebra 1, students (used to) do a line project in which they create a picture by programming lines and domains into their calculators. One student programmed a Wreck It Ralph which took him, I think, about 250 lines to draw. His efforts were way above and beyond, and the result looked great!

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I had a student in athletics who had heard of the projects we were doing in my Animation classes and decided to ask me if I would teach him what they were learning in my classes. I happily let him come to my tutoring sessions after school and he took the project further than any other student in any of my classes, showed a level of interest that superseded all my others and he made some amazing original 3d rendered objects that I happily printed for him. It amazed me that kids talk about my class to other kids and it sparks interest even when they are not there in person to receive it.

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Paper airplane contest to demonstrate assembly line... then they got to have a contest flying their plane.

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Students recorded videos to show the different steps for a recipe in Spanish. Some students added music, transitions, and banners to their video.

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After assigning a project on Global Challenges (in Spanish), a couple of students did a video explaining the challenge. It was recorded with original voice and environment. Most of the students did power points or posters.

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Students enthusiastically dramatized roles from TKAM. They worked in "legal teams" to research the court scene in the novel and came to school dressed in character to perform.

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Student start using this book,  after 3 years, to express her emotions to communicate what she was feeling instead of using inappropriate behavior for making those connections! #finallysuccess

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One thing that I enjoyed about coaching was the autonomy that it allowed me to give them. I would clearly give general directions (ie do a chant, show me a tumble sequence, what cheers are we performing for half time) by doing this is required the girls to communicate with each other and use problem solving skills.

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To meet AP requirements, my students must work in a group and present a multimedia project.  The project takes almost 9 weeks in the second semester. Witnessing them discuss a seed topic to watching them rehearse very rewarding to see the topics, the effort, and passion certain groups put in their presentations.  It's even more rewarding to see their final presentations. 

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To meet AP requirements, my students must work in a group and present a multimedia project.  The project takes almost 9 weeks in the second semester. Witnessing them discuss a seed topic to watching them rehearse very rewarding to see the topics, the effort, and passion certain groups put in their presentations.  It's even more rewarding to see their final presentations. 

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Students who were reaching above what they even expected of themselves have been some of the most wonderful examples of exceeding expectations.

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Students who were reaching above what they even expected of themselves have been some of the most wonderful examples of exceeding expectations.

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Student Government wanted to host a dance that catered to our developmental program and celebrated the peer tutors. The way the kids took ownership was mind-blowing. They visited the sensory room to get ideas and have our own sensory items at the dance, they designed the t-shirts, they talked with DJ about how to adapt music and lighting, and they even had a selfie station. It was by far my favorite thing they did last year, and everyone had an amazing time.

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Students were interested to learn how much rent, utilities, car payments, etc.
cost in relation to how much they were making in their researched profession.

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My ESL kids turned this simple assignment into BEAUTIFUL, ELABORATE representations of themselves, their cultures, their struggles and successes.  It was inspirational!

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For a few years I had my Art History class do a Propaganda project after learning about Ancient Roman art. There were little instructions except that they were to use visual propaganda to get me to choose them over the rest of the class. I was always surprised by the creative things they would create that went above and beyond my expectations.

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A student will always find a way to incorporate the full class into projects and make them into short films or movies.

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In an early in the year tone activity, instead of writing one of the three relatively simple

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Student who had an affinity for sound equipment took it upon himself to reorganize our sound room to make equipment more accessible and labeled shelves so items have a definite spot.

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Students created a stop motion video over DNA replication.

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Peer Helpers always start the year off going to both lunches and reaching out to students who are sitting alone, but last year one Helper bonded with another student who couldn't afford lunch and made an extra lunch for him every day.

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Students were asked to build a battery using their knowledge from the previous unit in Chemistry. I was amazed by their innovative ideas, excitement for the project, and the level of professionalism in their final reports.

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I had two students switch to playing a different instrument last year. They both decided to sign up for private lessons and are now way better at their new instrument than they were before the switch!

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A very  nondescript girl turned in a very impassioned plea to her parents about her flapper lifestyle while in full dress and make-up. The student was so deep in character I had no idea who she was until I went back and looked at the file name.

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I assigned a periodic table project to my students at the vocational school I taught at. The student ended up putting the periodic table, with their assigned trend, on a hood of a car during their Auto-body shop. They spent weeks on it and it was done correctly and they really incorporated their resources and thought outside of the box.

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Some of my AP Biology kiddos made some incredible websites to show the features of their specific biome.

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One unit, my students chose a world issue they cared about, wrote a research paper on it, and then morphed it into a poem which they were given an opportunity to share to other students. Most of my students wrote about impersonal issues, but one student who was very shy, sometimes broke down in class, and generally hid behind what was comfortable, write a very powerful piece on her struggle with depression, worked it often on her own time, and chose to share it in front of 120+ students, some of whom she'd never met, most of whom she'd never talked to.

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I had a student who loved our  investing project that he worked so hard he made 4 times as much money as anyone else in the class!  It was awesome to see him in his element!

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We needed to create a Snap Chat Filter for a non-profit I worked with. I had a couple of ideas for how to do this but it was going to take a bit of time that I didn't have. So I turned it over the the senior company dancers and they created something so much more sophisticated than I ever could.

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Television Commercial

Students campaigned for president in government class and rather than a powerpoint or slide show, some students made a legit campaign commercial for their candidate. (It was positive, no mud slinging)

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One of my students makes her own Youtube videos. Her Flipgrid self presentation was very animated.

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Teams of students developed timelines for each unit during the year. The first ones were miserable, but they got better!

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Students started taking a personal finance course and actually started to invest their own money.

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I had a student take the pottery wheel and run with it. He even built his own kick wheel, but eventually ended up buying an electric wheel, took it to college, and he wants to take ceramics all 4 years but he's not even an art major.

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Had an ESL Geometry student really get into this and the pictures she took to represent the words were truly original and creative. She really made it her own and did a great job.

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Usually the student or students that go above and beyond seem to do it through out the year.

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Coggle- mind map the major characters

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I had a student who collected much more environmental pollution data for more days than they had to because they were really interested in the project and wanted to see what happened.

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Student was asked to make a model of any landmark or well known place in the world out of Popsicle sticks and so he made a perfect replica of the Eiffel Tower which too longer than anyone else building.

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I give the students instructions and an idea of what is expected. Students come up with all kinds of creative ideas for presentations and technology

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Sometimes a simple assignment that involves writing a short film script can evolve into a full-fledged low budget indie production.

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New ELL students were placed in groups, but with other students (they wanted to be together). The remaining students wholeheartedly embraced the ELL students, and all worked very well together, and technology was the common language for all!

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Dissected pig hearts and kids totally made it "their" project/taking selfies, etc.

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Dissected pig hearts and kids totally made it "their" project/taking selfies, etc.

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My students blew me away with creating and collaborating on a coggle mind map for Beowulf.  I saved the PDFs, uploaded to my Classroom, and they could use them for study tools before the test.  I tweeted out pictures and Coggle even retweeted me!!!

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had students create very professional looking cooking video in French.

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Students that do not always do well on tests can shine on projects.  I have had low level students lead their team to create incredible coasters

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Had a student who took it upon herself to cut together highlights of weekly pep rallies and publish them for the campus

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It was a creative project that had several different options to choose from to capture the essence of the novel. One of the groups chose to create a movie trailer for the novel. It completely blew me away.

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I had students make videos about anything in anatomy and was impressed by how much thought and detail were put into the stories they created.

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The students took some of the musical numbers from the show and performed them for a sick parent, which eased his mind.