Chemistry of Art: Students will create an art gallery featuring original artwork that they made by developing their own art supplies through chemical reactions.
Evolution Museum: Students will create a virtual museum exhibit for an animal and its evolutionary traits.
Feeding the Future: Students will take what they learned to make a healthy meal and explain why the food choices they made are healthy.
Plant Power: Students will research, design, then build their own greenhouse to grow a plant.
"Greater"-Ade: Students will use chemical reactions to create and perfect a new formula for Gatorade.
The Happiness Project: Students will examine their lives and create a "rewirement" challenge that will encourage them to perceive daily situations differently and work towards happiness.
Introducing Invaders: Students will observe their local environment and identify solutions to the problems caused by invasive species.
Catapult Algebra: Students will build a catapult with a varying component that can be used to mathematically predict the distance the catapult will fire in a class-wide competition.
You Auto Know: Students will research two cars for a client within a certain budget and compare things like price, loan terms, depreciation, fuel expenses, insurance premiums, and maintenance.
Payday Loans: Students will create a smartphone application that will help others bridge a knowledge gap in financial literacy that they will have researched throughout the term.
Does College Make Cent$: Students will explore and compare two potential college & career options from an in-depth financial perspective and present them to the class.
To Raise or Not To Raise: Students will craft an argument on whether or not to raise the minimum wage using financial and economic mathematical reasoning and will use this argument to debate a fellow classmate.
X Marks The Spot: Students will create a scavenger hunt for their peers utilizing linear functions and trigonometric ratios to describe how to get from place to place.
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