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Project: Knights, Castles & Medieval Times
Students may:
- Build a castle in the classroom
- Sing songs about life in medieval times
- Play act medieval life
- Learn poems
- Plant oats & peas & barley
- Visit the Higgins Armory Museum
Project: Narcissus bulbs
Students may:
- Plant bulbs
- Draw stages of growth
- Measure growth
- Record observations in writing and drawing
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Project: Japan
Students may:
- Taste foods
- Cook Japanese food and/or visit Japanese Restaurant
- Learn songs
- Act out Japanese fairy tales
- Write in calligraphy
- Practice Ichebana
- Observe artifacts
- Learn about schools, homes & transportation
- Study geography
Project: Habitats
Students may:
- Observe animal habitats
- Record observations through words and drawings
- Research what animals need to live
- Create a habitat for classroom animals
- Set up classroom fish tank (pond or saltwater)
- Compare land & water habitats
- Take a field trip to an ocean or pond environment
- Create computer slide shows to demonstrate learning
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Project: Acton Long Ago
Students may:
- Observe artifacts (household/cooking/arts)
- Tour Acton to see old buildings
- Read & hear about Acton life in the early 1900s
- Spend a day in an old school house (field trip)
- Interview people of different generations
Project: Life Cycles
Students may:
- Observe the life cycle of a butterfly
- Observe the life cycle of an amphibian (frog)
- Draw and record observations
- Visit natural habitats (field trips)
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Project: Farm to Factory (Development of Cities)
Students may:
- Tour Sturbridge Village
- Write journals as members of Sturbridge family
- Research what resources a town provided
- Visit Mills in Lowell
- Read mill stories
- Study geography of Mill towns
- Learn about rivers relations to mills
- Create models of mill towns
Project: Electrical circuits
Students may:
- Experiment with bulbs & batteries
- Design and build a flashlight
- Draw a diagram of a closed circuit
- Integrate with study of cities.
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Project: Native Americans
Students may:
- Study a tribe in depth
- Create diorama of life of the tribe
- Learn music of Native American peoples
- Cook & taste various Native American foods
- Read myths & legends & connect to Astronomy
- Act out Native American myths & legends
- Write about Native Americans
- Stories, first person journals
Project: Astronomy
Students may:
- Connect to Native American studies
- Observe & illustrate shadows
- Observe the moon and record observations
- Collect data on shadows, moon & movement of stars
- Create Models of Solar System
- Dramatic presentations of knowledge for ASM
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Project: American History
Students may:
- Design and create Colonial ABC books
- Research a particular colony of the first thirteen
- Learn technology of graphics & design
- Make trading cards of the Revolutionary period.
- Field trip to Boston Revolutionary sites
- Re-enact debates at Old South Meeting House
- Learn & use note taking skills
- Research paper on an American History
- Role play an historical person or event
- Read historical fiction of the period
Project: Transport Systems
Students may:
- Research circulatory, respiratory systems
- Create drawings &/or models of lungs & hearts
- dissect lamb or pig hearts & lungs
- Research a disease related to one of the 2 systems
- Interview a medical professional
- Write a report about the disease/syndrome
- Create a "Medical Museum" presentation
- Present new understanding to other students
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Project: Ancient Civilizations
Students may:
- Learn about cultures of Ancient world
- Study Egypt, Greece, Rome, Maya
- Read period historical fiction
- Study ancient myths & legends and act them out.
- Create Egyptian mummy cases
- Explore concepts of archeology today ( hands-on)
- Explore Greek & Roman architecture in Acton
- Study geography of ancient civilizations
- Research one ancient civilization in depth
- Produce & present research in a research paper
- Study art of ancient civilizations
- See ancient art at MFA and/or Peabody Museums
Project: Service Learning
Students may:
- Experience meaningful work for others' benefit
- Work weekly at an off-campus site (1/2 day;1/2 year)
- Plan and prepare for each visit
- Reflect & write about experiences working in service.
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