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Quarter 3 Essential Questions & Projects
Every Quarter, 9th & 10th grade cohorts focus on a specific essential questions that guides the quarter's lessons and projects in all core classes. Below outlines quarter 3 essential questions and projects. Check in with your students and see how things are going. Then, join us Thursday, March 7th to see the final projects at Exhibition Night.
Please note: the information below is meant to be general over view information ONLY. The most up to day detailed information and directions will come from your student's guide.
All 9th Graders
Essential Question: How can we create and pitch a viable animal farm that is aligned with our values and mitigates global food, health, energy, or environmental issues?
For this project, students will be designing an animal farm centered around the well-being of one animal. This will also be aligned with personal, ethical values AND help mitigate one of the following global issues.
On Exhibition Night, students will showcase their animal magazine, business plan, and “Shark Tank” pitch. For community members and Sharks!
10th Graders
Cohort 1
Essential Question: How do we address global problems (the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals) with local solutions?
In this project, students will be tasked with deepening their understanding of one of the Sustainable Development Goals and creating an organization to address the development goal properly. As this is a very large question, this quarter will be spent analyzing how their global issue impacts us on a local scale. By the end of the quarter, students will have an organization with a professional web presence. This project will continue into our 4th and final quarter where they will enact change in our local community!
On exhibition night, students have the option of presenting their web page. This exhibition night is optional. Students will be tasked with finding community engagement, which could happen on exhibition night or through another avenue that they create.
By the end of this quarter (3/7), your organization will have a polished and professional web presence.
Cohort 2
Essential Question: How do we become self/communally sufficient? How do we sustain food production over different seasons?
STEAD’s community is growing and changing. How do we guide this growth toward our identified needs and wants, while considering the global community, our agricultural emphasis, and sustainable practice as a base-line of exploration? Over the course of the 2nd quarter we wrote, practiced, and pitched presentations for a sustainable infrastructure to be built by the end of the school year.
During 3rd quarter, we will continue to consider:
-What needs to be built?
-How would you build it?
-Where would it live?
-What materials will you need, timeline of build project, etc?
- How much will it cost?
Deliverables due this quarter:
A Project Portfolio including these five artifacts;
Outline: Science
Budget: Social Studies (economics)
Explanation of Units: Math
Rough Draft Report (individual and group): ELA
AND a model of your build-project.
All in support of building these in real life by quarter 4!
Cohort 3
Essential Question: How can we use our core disciplines to solve crime?
For cohort 3’s quarter project, students will create a “who done it?” scenario with three or more potential suspects. Each individual student within their group will be creating four puzzles or tasks related to each core discipline (ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies) that answer the essential question and cohesively lead to a culprit.
Groups of students will combine their tasks/puzzles to produce and run a scenario for community members to experience on Exhibition Night (3/7). Community members will be responsible for determining the ultimate culprit and solving the “who done it” experience that students constructed.
Upper School
Students in 11th Grade continue to work on their Passage Projects. Between 11th & 12th grade, students will complete four different passage projects in each of the following areas:
Quest, Creativity, Global Awareness & Logical Inquiry. While they continue to work on their passage projects, learning continues in the classroom. The following outlines the focus in each core subject during the 3rd quarter.
Social Studies
Guiding Question: How do the historical experiences of diverse groups in housing, education, and healthcare in the United States contribute to our understanding of contemporary challenges and opportunities in these areas?
ELA
Guiding Question: How can we use both scientific and spiritual ideas to understand what it means to be human?
Science
Guiding Question: How do we categorize and value diversity?
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