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ANIA Children's Land Project / Tierra de Niños In the ANIA Children's Land Project / Tierra de Niños task, students will share their home and/or school garden experiences and learn about how the agricultural methods of the Incan people of Peru can guide them in developing their own sustainable gardening practices. This task includes four possible classroom activities. |
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Analog Flash for Windows In this task, students will create an artistic project that combines various fields as their senior project. This task includes: |
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Beauty of the Beasts In this task, students around the world will create original artwork and poetry about indigenous animals in their area. This task includes: |
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Birds, Insects, Balloons: Kindergarten Flight Study In this task students will explore ratio and proportions through a flight study, designing and and creating various flying objects. This task includes: |
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Ciencilandia In this task, students will participate in science activities in order to better understand the world around them. This task involves multilingual components. This task includes: |
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Cycles and Patterns: Insects, Plants, and Caterpillars In this task, students will conduct three studies that explore the concept of patterns by examining three elements that are cyclical. This task includes: |
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Designing Cool In this task, students will collaborate with a landscape architect to redesign part of High Tech High. This task includes: |
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International Geographic Project In this task, students will collaborate as a class in creating a magazine modeled after National Geographic that answers the essential question, "How are things different when you cross the US/Mexico border and why?". This task includes: |
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Through My Eyes: Photography and Literacy In this task, students will engage in a long term visual project with multiple components to be presented to family and friends at the end of the year. This task includes: |
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Vive Le Revelucion! In this task, students will combine chemisty, art, and history in a piece depicting their researched revolution. This task includes: |
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