Enrichment Projects
These are complex projects that will be completed at home or as school (after a discussion with your teacher). You may request that an enrichment project be assigned for your child or your 4th or 5th grader may request it. If your teacher suggests completing an enrichment project parents have the right to either decline or set the idea aside for completing at a later date. It is completely at a parent’s discretion to accept an enrichment project because it is, after all, being done at home. It is also up to the parent just how much support they choose to offer their child.
There will be a set of choices for these projects, but you or your child may write a proposal for a project of their own design as well. Since these are home projects, some periodic guidance from the teacher can occur, however, there will not be time given in class for completing enrichment projects.
It is up to the student to decide how complex to make their overall project and their final product. Students can use whatever resources they have at their disposal. Their final product may be a hand written report, a typed report, a Power Point, an iMovie, a website, or another type of creative product appropriate for the project. The Final Product of the project will be shared with the teacher and usually to the class once completed.
Possible Projects:
These are complex projects that will be completed at home or as school (after a discussion with your teacher). You may request that an enrichment project be assigned for your child or your 4th or 5th grader may request it. If your teacher suggests completing an enrichment project parents have the right to either decline or set the idea aside for completing at a later date. It is completely at a parent’s discretion to accept an enrichment project because it is, after all, being done at home. It is also up to the parent just how much support they choose to offer their child.
There will be a set of choices for these projects, but you or your child may write a proposal for a project of their own design as well. Since these are home projects, some periodic guidance from the teacher can occur, however, there will not be time given in class for completing enrichment projects.
It is up to the student to decide how complex to make their overall project and their final product. Students can use whatever resources they have at their disposal. Their final product may be a hand written report, a typed report, a Power Point, an iMovie, a website, or another type of creative product appropriate for the project. The Final Product of the project will be shared with the teacher and usually to the class once completed.
Possible Projects:
**Write a historical narrative from the perspective of a Native American child, belonging to one of the tribes of the eastern woodland region, such as the Algonquin or Iroquois tribes, relating what it would have been like for your family to meet their first European trader.
**Use multiple resources to gather, analyze, and evaluate the relationship between two or more systems in the human body, such as the circulatory and muscular systems. Design a creative and informative way to present your findings.
** Write and publish a book of Poetry
** Write, Illustrate, and then Publish a Picture Book for children
** Create an original Comic with your own characters and theme... Publish a few strips.
** Create a website with a theme of your choosing, for instance a book review for friends to find their next book to read.
** Identify a unique and rare animal that lives in the United States. What are its characteristics? What is its’ habitat? Describe it’s food web/food chain. You can make a PowerPoint or poster to share with the other students in class. Use the rubric for oral presentations (supplied by your teacher) when presenting.
** Using the scientific method provided to you in your science textbook, demonstrate an experiment you completed at home. Take pictures or bring in evidence to share with your class. Check with your teacher for any science experiment books he/she might have for you to borrow.
** "Plexers" = brain logic puzzles. http://www.cfhea-kids.org/plexer.htm
More Project Ideas to come... (I welcome any project ideas for your own project and to list here for others to choose from.)
**Use multiple resources to gather, analyze, and evaluate the relationship between two or more systems in the human body, such as the circulatory and muscular systems. Design a creative and informative way to present your findings.
** Write and publish a book of Poetry
** Write, Illustrate, and then Publish a Picture Book for children
** Create an original Comic with your own characters and theme... Publish a few strips.
** Create a website with a theme of your choosing, for instance a book review for friends to find their next book to read.
** Identify a unique and rare animal that lives in the United States. What are its characteristics? What is its’ habitat? Describe it’s food web/food chain. You can make a PowerPoint or poster to share with the other students in class. Use the rubric for oral presentations (supplied by your teacher) when presenting.
** Using the scientific method provided to you in your science textbook, demonstrate an experiment you completed at home. Take pictures or bring in evidence to share with your class. Check with your teacher for any science experiment books he/she might have for you to borrow.
** "Plexers" = brain logic puzzles. http://www.cfhea-kids.org/plexer.htm
More Project Ideas to come... (I welcome any project ideas for your own project and to list here for others to choose from.)