What culminating projects do you enjoy with your students by Natacha Scott

Culminating Projects - N.Scott

natachascott23 — 2015-12-17 21:12:15 UTC

One of my favorite writing pieces were having the students write a letter to England to convince their family members to move to the New World. I usually used this as a 3rd grade assignment!

Culminating Projects - H.Rosa

hrosa — 2015-12-17 21:14:32 UTC

I love having the students make brochures or books for different audiences. For example, 4th graders can make brochures for 1st grade students on animals or 5th graders can create books about the solar system for K students!

After doing a close read about 3 amazing plants, the students study the saguaro cactus in depth. They end by reviewing the supplemental text (The Cactus Hotel) and the activities (measuring 50 ft in the hallway, making a facsimile of the cactus tough skin and pulp, making a timeline of it's life), recording facts and identifying the most important facts. They then make a book about the life of a saquaro cactus.

2015-12-17 21:15:50 UTC

- Madalyn Buck (1st grade)

Culminating Projects - A. Palo

2015-12-17 22:00:24 UTC

Science/Engineering: At the end of our ten week engineering after school program, we invite our school community to an engineering celebration where students test their final prototypes in front of an audience. We display our engineering notebooks so that community members can see how students have worked through the engineering design process to come up with their prototypes - possible solutions to a real world problem.

Culminating Projects- F. Bennie

2015-12-17 22:01:01 UTC

Science- My 8th grade hydroponics students wrote an article for the HMS newsletter that goes out to families describing their work in hydroponics and arguing why hydroponics is a viable growing method for particular circumstances

Culminating Project - K. Deo

2015-12-17 22:17:22 UTC

My favorite project was having the students pretend to be a Pilgrim living in Plymouth and write a letter home to their family in England. In the letter students included details about learning how to survive from the native americans.

Culminating project- V.Kent

2015-12-17 22:18:29 UTC

The project that I like to do with students in a Performance Based Assessment at the end of the Motion and Design Unit. The students have create a vehicle that can travel a given distance using the information they have learned from the unit. They have to create a design and do the birds eye and side view. They have to create a data table and test their vehicle. It is a great real life skill assessment.

Culminating Project- A. McKenzie

amckenzie5 — 2015-12-18 12:07:31 UTC

An example that I have just recently finished is 2nd grade had to publish short stories on their rock story. They had to tell their journey as a rock, for example; how they became a glass panel from being a boulder. Students would go through the process of the rock falling from a mountain, into a river, becoming sand, etc. They get to pick whatever topic they want as long as it is about a rock.

Culminating Project - C. Leonard

2016-01-02 02:56:05 UTC

At the end of the 5th grade Ecosystems Unit we use the Science Common Writing Assignment prompt to write an argument and what turned a pond green. In addition to using evidence from their eco-column pollution experiments they do research on the web to find additional evidence to support their claims and cite the sources. The project includes student using rubrics to provide peer feedback.

Culminating Project - B. Guilford

2016-02-08 20:51:10 UTC

I loved having my students independently research and write (with support) animal based book reports. We work through labeling images, maps of our animal's habitat, life cycles, etc. My students are always so proud of their work and it's nice to have a big project to share with families at the end.