CREST (Community for Rural Education, Stewardship and Technology)
Credit: 1 credit
Open to: 9-12
Prerequisite: None
Maine Learning Results Assessed:
- The learner will demonstrate how academic knowledge and skills are applied in the workplace and other settings
- The learner will use reading, listening, and viewing strategies to experience, understand, and appreciate literature and culture.
- The learner will demonstrate the ability to use the skills and strategies of the writing process.
- The learner will use stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing and speaking to explore ideas, to present lines of thought, to represent and reflect on human reflect on human experience, and to communicate feeling, knowledge, and opinions.
- The learner will work, write, and speak effectively in connection with research in all content areas.
The CREST class is a project based humanities class that will assist students with an interdisciplinary approach to Language arts, Technology and research skills in social and physical sciences. Examples of projects that students may select from are a historical documentary based on the lives and legacies of the America’s Cup crews of the turn of the century who were exclusively from Deer Isle, a project that will research the traditional parceling and use of land on Deer Isle, or research involving a proprietary project being supporting the East Penobscot Bay Resource Center to map primary potential sites for the release of juvenile lobsters reared in the local hatchery. Other related projects may develop over the courses duration. Projects will include trips off campus for purposes of research, data gathering and presentation. Student evaluation will be based on assignments which are project based tasks related to the above mentioned major project areas . All Tasks will be outlined and time line facilitated by consultation of student and teacher leaders.
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