ELA Grade 8
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
ALIEN INvaders at camp
Description: Students will research, photograph, and document invasive plant species harmful to local communities.
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Interdisciplinary: Science, Math
The Castle
Description: The Castle is a local historical home that has been opened as a museum. They are having issues with attendance, volunteers, advertising, and a central community calendar.
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Interdisciplinary: Social Studies
GMOs in society
Description: This unit invites students to explore locally grown genetically modified food sources.
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Interdisciplinary: Science
Local farming threat
Description: Learners take the roles of future environmentalists and farming advocates, to help determine the best and most cost-efficient course of action in order to solve the spread of disease.
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Interdisciplinary: Science
One-to-One Technology
Description: Students will brainstorm and research the different aspects of acquiring the technology.
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Interdisciplinary: Technology, Math
Poetry in Our Schools
Description: Learners will take the role of lobbyists in persuading politicians and community members of the best course of action, investigating and producing examples of poetry in support of their position, with corresponding analyses of each example.
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Terrible Traffic
Trouble
Description: Students will explore local, real-world issues concerning traffic patterns in and around the elementary, middle school, and high school campus.
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THYME TO TURNIP
THA BEET
Description: To remedy a lack of green space around the school, students decided to beautify the surrounding area with gardens and expand efforts to include a vegetable garden so that they may have healthier school lunches.
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Interdisciplinary: Social Studies
Vandalism in
School Bathrooms
Description: Students are asked to come up with solutions to stop the vandalism the restrooms.
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Interdisciplinary: Social Studies, Math