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My idea for Science is  . . .pests in the garden! We need to find organic solutions.

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Could add a page for each of the main ideas... geography, daily life, etc...

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Creating SEL tool boxes for real time accommodations and strategies.

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Groups of Students will conduct research on indigenous cultures from Spanish-Speaking regions.

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My idea for ELA would be to allow students to create a Podcast as a way to change up socratic seminar, or reports of informational essays.

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Dorothy Meilak

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In this project, students engage in investigations and observations of the weather to create a local weather guide. They work together as a class to count and graph information such as temperature, observations of rain/snow/sun, and feelings of heat or cold. Students reflect on the data they gather and draw conclusions about patterns over time. Students also reflect on and engage in discussions about how weather affects their daily lives, considering factors such as what they wear in different kinds of weather, how the weather affects their daily activities and forms of transportation, and how they feel in different kinds of weather.

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In this project, students engage in investigations and observations of the weather to create a local weather guide. They work together as a class to count and graph information such as temperature, observations of rain/snow/sun, and feelings of heat or cold. Students reflect on the data they gather and draw conclusions about patterns over time.

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Traditional Peruvian Dances

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La Marinera

Marinera is an elegant dance representing courtship and love, enacted by two dancers. The man and woman dance around each other, moving in and out, back and forth, wth swooping and playful gestures and handkerchiefs that float around above them like birds. The dance originated on the coast of Peru and has slight variations throughout the country. The dance itself has gained a lot of recognition and is one of the most popular traditional dances of Peru. You'll find little kids dancing La Marinera in dance classes throughout Lima and other cities.

This is a traditional Andean dance that is popular in the Peruvian highlands and Andes. Participants wear traditional Andean clothing, with bright and vibrant colors and it is performed by couples who make turns and movements featuring hops and foot stamps which mark the rhythm.

Supaypa wasin tusuq (dance of scissors)

Kind of like a dance off with scissors, this dance originated in the south Andes of Peru. The dancers take turns dancing in sync which is followed by solo moments where one dancer takes center stage, performing moves somewhat similar to an Irish jig - but with scissors. The dance is accompanied by violins and harps. Catch the dance performed in December in the city of Huancavelica when they celebrate the Scissor Dance.

Huaconada is a dance performed in the village of Mito in the central part of the Peruvian Andes. During the first couple days of January, masked men called huacones take center stage in the main plaza, performing choreographed dances. The masks are supposed to inspire respect and fear, representing elders - with the large faces and curved noses, they accomplish just that.

El Vals Criollo (Peruvian waltz)

El Val Criollo is the Peruvian version of the European waltz. The dance was brought to Peru from Spain during the colonials years and has changed since its first introduction to the shores of Peru. Afro-Peruvian singers now dominate the genre, with the most famous having been Lucha Reyes.

This is a dance with accompanying guitar - that began in the north coast of Peru, particularly in the city of Piura. It is very similar to La Marinera with dancers both flirting with and courting each other. The dance also uses the handkerchief as a prop.

The Wititi dance is a staple of Arequipa and the Colca Valley associated with maturation and coming of age. This is another courtship ritual typically preformed during the religious festivals. It is a little bit different than other Peruvian dances with rows of young men and women performing choreographed steps and moves. Women keep the Andean tradition of wearing bright clothing and Andean hats while the men dress up in women's clothing. It is not quite understood exactly why men wear women's clothing but it is believed that it was done to trick enemies - because the dance comes from a tribute to military conquest - or as a way to seduce women without arising suspicion (possibly so their wives didn't notice them with another woman).

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7 Traditional Peruvian Dances You Need to Know About

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La Marinera Marinera is an elegant dance representing courtship and love, enacted by two dancers. The man and woman dance around each other, moving in and out, back and forth, wth swooping and playful gestures and handkerchiefs that float around above them like birds.

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How can observing the natural world help us find solutions to human problems?

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Students explore the structures and behaviors of plants and animals that protect them from danger or otherwise increase their chance of survival. By performing observations, constructing explanations, and building on prior experiences, students design nature-inspired solutions to a student-identified problem faced by humans.

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Gold Rush- Starting a Business

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Students work in teams to develop a business concept, conduct market research and/or a competitive analysis, create a realistic financial plan, and pitch their businesses to an audience. As students create and plan for a business, they learn key mathematical skills involving operations, grouping, and decimals and develop competence in areas of technology, communication, and collaboration.

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Defined Learning (formerly Defined STEM)

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Project Based Learning Archives - Defined Learning (formerly Defined STEM)

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By Dr. David Reese When we think about the remote classroom it is important to keep it structured for both the teacher and the student as everyone slowly becomes comfortable working remotely. Defined Learning provides teachers with a library of engaging performance tasks and [...]

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Students create and "publish" a choose your own adventure storybook/fairy tale

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Students create and "publish" a choose your own adventure storybook/fairy tale

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Students would use Google Slides or Book Creator for their final product.
Google Sites could be a great place for students to brainstorm story ideas, access resources that give them vocab ideas & story structure lessons in French

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Anxiety and stress relief activities for STEPS and directed learning students

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my idea for math8 would be to have students work on a Geogebra link and graph or create a Artistic Transformations project and then be collaboratively explain their project.

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My idea for Social Science is...understanding the cost of things that we purchase.  This could also apply to Finance and Econ classes.

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When we go shopping, it's easy to get caught up in the stories marketers sell us: we tend to want the fastest cell phones, the snazziest sneakers, or the most delicious lattes. But what are the REAL stories behind the products we know and love? In this project, students take on the role of investigative reporters, researching the origin stories of a variety of everyday products. Each team of students selects a different popular brand-name item and researches the political, environmental, economic, and social impacts of the item's manufacture and distribution, following the product from the extraction of raw resources all the way to the consumer. Students compile their research into a magazine article for an audience of potential consumers of those products. Then, in a panel, they discuss their findings and potential solutions to help promote sustainable production now and in the future.

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When we go shopping, it's easy to get caught up in the stories marketers sell us: we tend to want the fastest cell phones, the snazziest sneakers, or the most delicious lattes. But what are the REAL stories behind the products we know and love?

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My idea is to do do a project on what effects the growth of plants.

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My idea is to do do a project on what effects the growth of plants.

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https://my.pblworks.org/project/grow-it-green

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Family newsletter  shared with different family members living  in different locations. I love the carousel of pictures.

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How can we teach people about the weather in our community?

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How can we teach people about the weather in our community?

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Students can access the Google Site to track the weather in their neighborhood each day and compare with their peers. Students can work as a group and present as "meteorologists" to explain weather to others.

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In this project, students engage in investigations and observations of the weather to create a local weather guide. They work together as a class to count and graph information such as temperature, observations of rain/snow/sun, and feelings of heat or cold. Students reflect on the data they gather and draw conclusions about patterns over time. Students also reflect on and engage in discussions about how weather affects their daily lives, considering factors such as what they wear in different kinds of weather, how the weather affects their daily activities and forms of transportation, and how they feel in different kinds of weather.

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In this project, students engage in investigations and observations of the weather to create a local weather guide. They work together as a class to count and graph information such as temperature, observations of rain/snow/sun, and feelings of heat or cold. Students reflect on the data they gather and draw conclusions about patterns over time.

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Students connected with teens in Mexico, Central America, and South America as part of a cross-cultural youth friendship project. They engage in weekly video chat sessions and email exchanges to learn about their peers’ lifestyles, beliefs, communities, and cultures.

Idea from High Tech High's school website.

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At High Tech High, teachers co-design semester-long projects for and with their students. Early last Spring, we shared spark ideas and passions in co-designing a project for this Fall, and we realized we had common ground in our love for travel and ethnic studies.

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My idea is to have kids invent something and create a website to describe the engineering process that they followed.  Our learning goal would be to choose the best components of various solutions and create something new.  ETS standards.

There are several ideas on Science Buddies that would be great.

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Why buy it when you can build it? That is the attitude you will need for this project. You have probably seen cell phone holders or stands around the house or in a car. They might seem like a very simple object, but they are a great way to learn about the engineering design process. In this project, you will design and build your own working phone stand.

This activity is not appropriate for use as a science fair project. Good science fair projects have a stronger focus on controlling variables, taking accurate measurements, and analyzing data. To find a science fair project that is just right for you, browse our library of over 1,200 Science Fair Project Ideas or use the Topic Selection Wizard to get a personalized project recommendation.

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Design a Cell Phone Stand | STEM Activity

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Why buy it when you can build it? That is the attitude you will need for this project. You have probably seen cell phone holders or stands around the house or in a car. They might seem like a very simple object, but they are a great way to learn about the engineering design process.

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This is a website that has PBL projects for many subjects and connects students from all over the world. So... your students can actually do a PBL with kids in other countries. I have used it for Spanish to collaborate and it is the kids who actually decide what type of project they will create based on your question and standards!

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PenPal Schools connects students from 150 countries through project based learning. Students create projects about topics ranging from human rights and environmental sustainability to robotics and literature with global PenPals.

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My idea is on a new system of grading especially during school closures.

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My idea is on a new system of grading especially during school closures.

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https://my.pblworks.org/project/making-grade

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Using Mindfulness 1-3 minutes prior to starting any new distance learning, Mind Yeti, Counselor videos....

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Cosmic Kids Yoga

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Watch & Stream Free Kids Yoga Videos | Cosmic Kids

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Watch and stream kids yoga videos in a safe space on our website. Cosmic Kids’ most popular adventures can be found here as well as on our app.

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Find more stories with the theme of survival and explore a situation where students have to make decisions to survive.  (Benchmark, 5th Grade, Unit 7)

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Find more stories with the theme of survival and explore a situation where students have to make decisions to survive.  (Benchmark, 5th Grade, Unit 7)

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My idea would be to use PBL to plan an activity designed to allow students to use the internet to virtually discover a region of the world and to study the cultural traditions which exist in that region. Students will collaborate with one another to compare and contrast this region/culture with American culture. They will create a "virtual journey" into the region of their choosing.

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Explore music careers:  Consider all of the ways that you consume music now that you are social distancing.  Explore and pick a music career that is responsible for bringing music into your home (e.g. sound engineer, commercial artist, film composer, jingle writer, youtube artist).  Write up a short summary of what this person does, what type of schooling would be helpful for this career, skills necessary for this job, and your thoughts on that profession.

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Using Google Sites in order to publish information for families to follow the Google Classroom Assignments.  Posting videos/ sites/ social stories for students to use during this time. Adding Behavior Tools and linking to Google Classroom.

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Project would be to look at what and why the Earth is situated in the specific layers. Is there a way the Earth would could be layered differently. My idea for Earth Science would be for students to create a site with resources to tour the different investigations within our FOSS experiments (i.e. tours of the earth for soil, some of the FOSS videos, different notebook pages). Have students create a virtual notebook of learning within the GoogleSites. Keeping eco friendly minimizing paper wastage.

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Lori George

How do businesses become financially successful?

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Elementary school students are natural entrepreneurs. In this project, students work in teams to develop a business concept, conduct market research and/or competitive analysis, create a realistic financial plan, and pitch their businesses to an audience. As students are encouraged to create and plan a business, they develop key mathematical skills involving operations, grouping, and decimals, as well as competence in areas of technology, communication, and collaboration.

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My idea is for students to research ancient Greece:  How has ancient Greece contributed to our society today.                                       This would be great for all DBQ units and connect to the today's world     

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My idea is for students to research ancient Greece:  How has ancient Greece contributed to our society today.                                       This would be great for all DBQ units and connect to the today's world     

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Groups of students will analyze the food options at their schools and collaborate as a group to see if the food choices offered at school help support their social, emotional and physical health.

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Healthy Choices = Long Life | MyPBLWorks

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One out of two American children suffer from chronic health problems. This project connects nutrition and diet with fitness and exercise, exploring how healthy choices in each of these areas improves overall wellness. Students undertake research that exposes often conflicting ideas and beliefs on health and wellness approaches, and they explore questions about school practices.

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Pantomime Techniques: Students would study the techniques in the video then practice and perfect their own version to post in a Flipgrid assignment in Google Classroom.

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Mime Basics: Acting Tips and Techniques : How to Catch a Butterfly in Mime

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Mme Maloncon-I would have students investigate and research music/musicians in francophone countries. 

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Mme Maloncon-I would have students investigate and research music/musicians in francophone countries. 

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Kim Hanley
Students are going to  work in teams to develop a product, conduct market research and/or competitive analysis, create a pitch for their businesses to an audience. SS standards or Economy, informative writing, informative reading, etc.

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In this project, students partner with a local historical society or archive to explore, research, and interpret primary source images and documents from a significant event or period in local history that connects to a larger historical moment or social movement (e.g., the Civil Rights movement, the Great Depression, or the Vietnam War). They read narratives and first-person accounts from the period in question to build background knowledge. Then students work together in teams, using a digital tool such as , to create an interactive museum app that provides context and background for the images and artifacts and connects them to the larger historical moment or social movement.

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In this project, students partner with a local historical society or archive to explore, research, and interpret primary source images and documents from a significant event or period in local history that connects to a larger historical moment or social movement (e.g., the Civil Rights movement, the Great Depression, or the Vietnam War).

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How safe is my [water, air, soil, food]?

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Students identify and research harmful chemicals in their community water and propose solutions to minimize the impact of these chemicals. They determine the most pressing environmental issues and the chemicals associated with those issues and identify ways to address those issues within the local community. If possible, students partner with local or regional environmental stewardship organizations to discuss these issues.

As part of this process, students reflect on the political/economic context surrounding the presence of these chemicals in a community-including understanding who is most affected by these hazards and how the hazards came to be present. Students learn about the chemical pathways and bonding properties of the contaminant, both within the human body and in the environment, along with chemical reactions that can effectively neutralize the contaminant in the environment.

Students create a product (e.g., public service announcement; social media campaign; community pamphlets, fliers, or posters; op-ed article or letter to the editor) informing the community of the dangers of the local environmental issue, along with recommended solutions to remediate the issue. Each product must include a link to a scientific report that explains student findings regarding the chemical pathways and bonding properties of the contaminant as well as a student-tested approach to neutralizing the contaminant.

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Students identify and research harmful chemicals in their community water and propose solutions to minimize the impact of these chemicals. They determine the most pressing environmental issues and the chemicals associated with those issues and identify ways to address those issues within the local community.

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Great Idea for students to get involved in their own school culture:

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Creativity Takes Courage - How does learning about art impact how we see the world?

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Why is art important?

How are artists resilient?

How does art speak to you?

What types of medium do artists use?

What is the purpose of an art museum?

In this project, kindergartners explored eight different artists and their work. The students examined not only individual artist's pieces and style, but also made parallels to various artists' lives and techniques. They learned to express their ideas and opinions about the artists and types of art they enjoyed. Through various field experiences and art projects, students discovered learning through mistakes and building grit. After examining each artist, the students created a piece of art in his/her style. For the final product, students chose which artist he/she connected most with, then created a self- portrait in that style and wrote a reflection piece about why they chose that artist.

Piece of art in the style of each great artist

Self portrait in the style of the artist of their choice

Writing piece on why they chose that style

Pocket facial feature guide

Informational writing
Opinion writing

Reading Informational Text:
Ask and answer questions about different artists/styles
Compare and contrast artist's styles
Biographies

Social Emotional:
Perspective taking
Grit
Learning from mistakes
Mindset

Geometry - finding shapes in the real world (art)
Composing and decomposing shapes to create art
Symmetry
Patterns

When deciding whether or not this project was kindergarten-friendly, the teachers visited the San Diego Museum of Art. While there, we shared our project idea with a museum docent. Upon hearing the scope and sequence of the project, she was excited by the idea of kindergarteners being exposed to museums and art as the museum had not worked with primary students before. This was a driving force to move forward with this project.

This project went beyond what we expected of the students. It conjured up questions about how art affects you, the connections one can make individually to an artist, and that there are multiple perspectives around art. The students were excited to learn that a local artist's sculptures were around San Diego and took their families to see many of them. The scope of the project gave students the knowledge, skills and language to reflect on art beyond what was explored in the classroom. One family shared that their child was able to have an in-depth conversation with a local artist they met. The student was confident in her knowledge of art and reflective in learning about the artist's work.

"Art is important because it speaks to different people in different ways" -Bellamy

"Art speaks to me because it moves me to different places and times." -Sophia

"Even when artists feel like giving up they keep painting." - Olivia

"An art museum is so people can look at different types of art and make opinions if they like it or not. They can also look at art and see different kinds." -Crosby

"Art speaks to me by how it looks. A Vincent Van Gogh painting speaks to me." -Julian

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Why is art important? How are artists resilient? How does art speak to you? What types of medium do artists use? What is the purpose of an art museum? In this project, kindergartners explored eight different artists and their work. The students examined not only individual artist's pieces and style, but also made parallels to various artists' lives and techniques.

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As the Co-Adviser for the Environmental Club, I would love to have my kids investigate the MyPBLWorks "There's What in My Water?" and share their findings with the community.

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Students identify and research harmful chemicals in their community water and propose solutions to minimize the impact of these chemicals. They determine the most pressing environmental issues and the chemicals associated with those issues and identify ways to address those issues within the local community. If possible, students partner with local or regional environmental stewardship organizations to discuss these issues.

As part of this process, students reflect on the political/economic context surrounding the presence of these chemicals in a community-including understanding who is most affected by these hazards and how the hazards came to be present. Students learn about the chemical pathways and bonding properties of the contaminant, both within the human body and in the environment, along with chemical reactions that can effectively neutralize the contaminant in the environment.

Students create a product (e.g., public service announcement; social media campaign; community pamphlets, fliers, or posters; op-ed article or letter to the editor) informing the community of the dangers of the local environmental issue, along with recommended solutions to remediate the issue. Each product must include a link to a scientific report that explains student findings regarding the chemical pathways and bonding properties of the contaminant as well as a student-tested approach to neutralizing the contaminant.

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Students identify and research harmful chemicals in their community water and propose solutions to minimize the impact of these chemicals. They determine the most pressing environmental issues and the chemicals associated with those issues and identify ways to address those issues within the local community.

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My idea is to have students explore people throughout history that are considered community heroes, and connect them with people or jobs that they know of or see in their community that they would consider heroes today.

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In this project, students read and discuss books about well-known historical and present day figures (e.g., Malala Yousafzai, Sojourner Truth, Cesar Chavez) who have worked in different ways to make their communities and worlds better. They also talk about examples of people in their own lives and communities who they have seen working to improve conditions at a local level These people might be family members, teachers, neighbors, or others. Students work together as a class to create a shared set of characteristics for a community hero. Then each student chooses (with support from a teacher- or class-created list) one community hero on which to focus. Each student uses drawing, sculpture, collage, or another artistic medium to create a portrait of the hero along with a paragraph caption explaining who the hero was and how they contributed to their community.

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In this project, students read and discuss books about well-known historical and present day figures (e.g., Malala Yousafzai, Sojourner Truth, Cesar Chavez) who have worked in different ways to make their communities and worlds better.

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This is an article about how google slides, sites, and classroom are different and how they can be used together.

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This is an article about how google slides, sites, and classroom are different and how they can be used together.

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https://www.teachercast.net/the-great-edtech-debate-google-sites-vs-google-classroom-vs-blogger/

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My idea for a kindergarten science would be to have students provide images of life cycle of butterflies

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Lori George

How can we use data to reduce our families’ impact on the environment?

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In this project, students use measurement, data, and fraction concepts to develop, implement, and monitor an action plan for reducing their family’s impact on the environment. Each student team focuses on one resource: water, garbage, food waste, electricity, or car gas usage. Teams research information such as the amount of water per minute of shower or the number of miles per gallon used by a family car, and then they conduct home inventories of their family’s usage of these resources for one week (e.g., timing the length of showers, the mass and volume of garbage, or the number of watt-hours used by key household devices). Students graph their individual family data and collective team data on line plots.After measuring their families’ current use of resources, students set goals for reducing resource use by a given fraction and identify strategies to help their families achieve these goals (e.g., “We will reduce our use of water by ¼ through taking shorter showers and making sure the dishwasher is full before running it.”) Students communicate these strategies and goals to their families in the form of an informative/explanatory letter, and then measure and graph changes in their families’ resource use as they implement their action plans.As an alternative, if there are barriers to measuring data about resource usage at home, students might consider measuring the use of resources in the classroom or across the school.

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I would use sites for parent and student to access materials and websites that use regularly.  Directions to common materials in English and Spanish.  Have different pages for the subjects / grade levels that I teach.

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I would use sites for parent and student to access materials and websites that use regularly.  Directions to common materials in English and Spanish.  Have different pages for the subjects / grade levels that I teach.

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Researched about different issues affecting our oceans including endangered species, overfishing, and pollution.  Each student then will choose an endangered ocean animal to research on their own before writing a narrative non-fiction story about their animal.

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The Sea Creatures and Portraits Stories audio ebook is one of the final products of our eight week long project called S.O.S. (Save Ocean Species.) We launched this project with a field trip to the Scripps Birch Aquarium which then led to a whole class in-depth learning about sharks. We also researched about different issues affecting our oceans including endangered species, overfishing, and pollution. Each student then chose an endangered ocean animal to research on their own before writing a narrative non-fiction story about their animal. Students analyzed mentor texts to familiarize themselves with this genre of writing. Their writing pieces evolved through each stage of the writing process where the students first used an organizer for each part of the writing. During the editing/revising stage, students used a checklist to self-revise and then peer revise, before conferring with the teachers. To accompany their stories, the students made a scientifically realistic drawing of their ocean animal using the critique process where they received and gave feedback on their multiple drafts.

This project involved much fieldwork, including a visit to the Cabrillo tide pools where the students used field guides to identify intertidal species and learn about the food chain, a beach clean up, and in-class visits from a marine ecologist, a commercial fisherman, the San Diego Coastkeepers, as well as some watercolor artists. The beach clean up was organized in collaboration with the San Diego Coastkeeper and was a big part of our SOS project. Students gathered data on the types of trash they collected and took photos while on the beach clean-up. They then organized the data into a table and graph, made calculations and projections, and developed conclusions. With the help of Outside the Lens, a photography and digital media literacy organization, students used the beach clean up photos and research to create public service announcement posters about marine debris and distributed them to restaurants and stores in the beach community.

Once the narrative non-fiction pieces and watercolor portraits were completed, the students used a rubric to practice reading their stories with expression before recording their voices onto an audio track at a high school recording studio. All in all, the students took a lot of care and time into creating their final products.

I absolutely loved this project! Children are just naturally drawn to the ocean and all the animals that live there so it was no surprise when the students were thrilled to find that they would be learning more about how to take care of the ocean and the endangered animals that live there. The students were so inspired to learn all that they could know about their ocean animal and the fieldwork was top notch. Where else could the students get some hands on experience with an ecologist at the Cabrillo tidepools, learning about the intertidal and the animals that live there? It was also rewarding to see the students work so hard on creating their PSA posters and then going from store to store in Ocean Beach, distributing their posters to be posted up on the store windows. The students were so proud that they were actually doing something to make a difference!

-Misa Adams, 3rd Grade Teacher

One of the highlights was delivering the posters because I liked talking to people at different stores. It made me feel happy that we were spreading the work to not litter and to stop pollution. It also made me feel sad because it had to end.

Ariane

My personal favorite was the Ocean Beach clean up because we got to pick up a lot of trash and we found weird items like aluminum cans that dated back to the 1980's.

Henry

I really enjoyed making my animal portrait because it wasn't easy and it really made me persevere.

Ally

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Students research & propose solutions for reducing food waste (le gaspillage alimentaire)

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Students research & propose solutions for reducing food waste (le gaspillage alimentaire)

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I don't have a specific link yet, but I know I have seen this topic/project on a French teacher's blog

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Project would be to look at what and why the Earth is situated in the specific layers. Is there a way the Earth would could be layered differently. My idea for Earth Science would be for students to create a site with resources to tour the different investigations within our FOSS experiments (i.e. tours of the earth for soil, some of the FOSS videos, different notebook pages). Have students create a virtual notebook of learning within the GoogleSites. Keeping eco friendly minimizing paper wastage.

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Elementary Science ocean animal study, salt water painting.

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Why should first graders care about the ocean?

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S.O.S. Save Ocean Species
www.hightechhigh.org/htex/project/s-o-s-save-ocean-species/

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My idea for Science 7 would be for students to create their own solution to the issues with worms eating micro plastics in soils.

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My idea for a project is teaching students how to grow their own greens!

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my idea for that project is how are we impacting the local water shed.
this should have been color red but i am not able to do that.

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Create a site of National Parks with pictures and captions for virtual vacations.

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Create a site of National Parks with pictures and captions for virtual vacations.

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Simple brain exercises to confuse brain, that increases memory. 

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Simple brain exercises to confuse brain, that increases memory. 

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My Idea is to let students study the Red Planet

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In this interdisciplinary project, students explore the history of space travel and the science of Mars exploration. Student teams use engineering design processes, as well as content knowledge about historical space exploration, conditions on Mars, and the scale of the universe, to identify problems related to Mars exploration and develop inventions that help to solve those problems.

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In this interdisciplinary project, students explore the history of space travel and the science of Mars exploration.

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I will create a Seahawk Theater Arts site to share out information about auditions, events, ticket information etc...

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Create a site of National Parks with pictures, captions, etc. for a virtual field trip through our Parks.

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Create a site of National Parks with pictures, captions, etc. for a virtual field trip through our Parks.

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In this interdisciplinary project, students explore the history of space travel and the science of Mars exploration. Student teams use engineering design processes, as well as content knowledge about historical space exploration, conditions on Mars, and the scale of the universe, to identify problems related to Mars exploration and develop inventions that help to solve those problems.

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In this interdisciplinary project, students explore the history of space travel and the science of Mars exploration.

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For math My idea would be the creation of the Tiny house using what they are learning in the Geometry unit.