Design for Deeper Learning

Research the Students will make mud balls from the soil around the school to conduct a geological investigation.

Project: The Mountain Lion Project Grade: Kindergarten Duration: Approximately six weeks, with flexibility to follow children’s emerging interests. Educational approach: Progressive, constructivist, inquiry-based, and inspired by the project documentation practices of High Tech High and Reggio Emilia. Initial project question: How can mountain lions live so close to us without our seeing them? Project description: Our kindergarten class, called the Mountain Lions, will investigate the mountain lions living in Southern California. We want children to develop their understanding of these animals through observation, scientific inquiry, physical experiences, mathematical investigations, drawing, writing, construction, and discussion. We are particularly interested in children’s developing understanding of habitat, animal adaptations, evidence, scale, and the relationship between human communities and wildlife. We want to incorporate authentic scientific information and local resources, including the mountain lion research conducted in the Santa Monica Mountains. Important design considerations: * Begin with children’s existing ideas and questions. * Avoid predetermined conclusions. * Emphasize hands-on investigations over worksheets. * Incorporate drawing and model-making as tools for thinking. * Include opportunities to revisit, critique, and revise earlier work. * Integrate kindergarten mathematics, literacy, and science naturally. * Document changes in children’s understanding. * Develop an authentic final exhibition or collaborative product. Design request: Help develop this investigation using High Tech High’s Kaleidoscope framework. Suggest meaningful experiences, essential questions, community connections, documentation strategies, and possibilities for a public exhibition. Keep the work developmentally appropriate for five- and six-year-olds, intellectually engaging, and flexible enough to respond to children’s emerging interests.

Project: The Mountain Lion Project Grade: Kindergarten Duration: Approximately six weeks, with flexibility to follow children’s emerging interests. Educational approach: Progressive, constructivist, inquiry-based, and inspired by the project documentation practices of High Tech High and Reggio Emilia. Initial project question: How can mountain lions live so close to us without our seeing them? Project description: Our kindergarten class, called the Mountain Lions, will investigate the mountain lions living in Southern California. We want children to develop their understanding of these animals through observation, scientific inquiry, physical experiences, mathematical investigations, drawing, writing, construction, and discussion. We are particularly interested in children’s developing understanding of habitat, animal adaptations, evidence, scale, and the relationship between human communities and wildlife. We want to incorporate authentic scientific information and local resources, including the mountain lion research conducted in the Santa Monica Mountains. Important design considerations: * Begin with children’s existing ideas and questions. * Avoid predetermined conclusions. * Emphasize hands-on investigations over worksheets. * Incorporate drawing and model-making as tools for thinking. * Include opportunities to revisit, critique, and revise earlier work. * Integrate kindergarten mathematics, literacy, and science naturally. * Document changes in children’s understanding. * Develop an authentic final exhibition or collaborative product. Design request: Help develop this investigation using High Tech High’s Kaleidoscope framework. Suggest meaningful experiences, essential questions, community connections, documentation strategies, and possibilities for a public exhibition. Keep the work developmentally appropriate for five- and six-year-olds, intellectually engaging, and flexible enough to respond to children’s emerging interests.

onoring Local Veterans Through Fitness and Wellness The Multimedia Creator Track Health & Physical Education | Grades 9–12 | Three-week project | Partners: pairs or trios Project Mission Create a thoughtful, evidence-informed media project that highlights veteran wellness and a local resource, program, or story. As health journalists and advocates, your group will connect human experiences with accurate health science—without reducing a person’s story to a “feel-good” message or making assumptions about veterans’ experiences. Project Overview Work with a partner or in a trio to select one media track, research your topic, and produce an accessible final project. Your work must address all three health-science pillars below and include a clear, responsible call to action, such as learning more about a local resource. You may focus on a veteran who freely chooses to participate, a veteran-serving organization or program, or published veteran stories. You are not required to interview a veteran or discuss personal trauma.

build a research paper about an issue in catholic social teaching

I want to show the beginning of Netflix's new stanford prison experiment and then have stuents use this to discuss how they identified a gap in research, are adapting the previous study, and the ethics of this study. This is for AP Research.