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Pilot Week
As New Technology High School (NTHS) is looking at transitioning to interdisciplinary projects the entire school engaged in Pilot Week. The school divided into grade level cohorts. A team of teachers planned and implemented a project that incorporated multiple content areas. Below are resources and planning forms used for the 9th grade team.

9th Grade Project
Driving Question: How can we as New Tech Students combat food insecurity in our community?

Students will be working with three local organizations (pictured above) focused on different aspects of the issue of food insecurity.

As part of the project students engaged in a math workshop, the resources are linked below.

Student Examples:

Student blog:

Students were asked to make data visual using a chart, graph or picture. Below on some of their final products.

HOW-TOs

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ASSESSMENT

After going over feedback from all stakeholders about pilot week, NTHS decided to have all 9th graders do interdisciplinary all year long. A team of five core teachers and three support teachers designed the following projects.

Lighten Up Project

Students started the year off engaging in a project that introduced them to PBL. They were asked to build a lantern for the Lighted Art Festival that will take place January 2019. The launch slide deck, an introduction to geometric constructions, as well pictures of student examples are below.

Student Blog Example
Students were asked to incorporate a regular polygon into their lantern design. In math students worked on constructions and were then asked to blog about their construction.

Next Steps
The freshman team of teachers has designed several more projects this year and is continuing to have students blog. If you would like more information on the projects we are implementing please fill out the comment form on the About the Author page.