It’s the end the of the year, and we frantically wrapping up loose ends and projects from the year. The three main projects that we are working on are our Choose Your Own Adventure Story, our novel writing project, and our mold experiments.

Students are finishing up their CYOAS projects. They created nonlinear stories that begin during the American Revolution, which is our social studies topic. The stories can take many different directions and illustrate how individual choices can dramatically change our personal and collective histories. Projects will be published to a website I created. I will share the link with everyone when they are complete.​

Students wrote the majority of their novels in November and early December. During second semester, students worked on editing their projects, and now in May students are publishing their novels through Amazon’s publishing company Createspace. This year’s novels ranges from around 50 pages to nearly 200. They have done a great job. I’ll send along links to their novels when we finalize them next week.

In early December, we were finishing up a unit on ecosystems, which included decomposition. Our project for that unit involved allowing oranges and pizza to mold for 6 months with a different variable on each plate. We also had a control plate, meaning there was no added variable. Watch the video below to learn more.