Engineering for Good: Students leveraged a design thinking process and created a video to reach a broader audience as part of KQED's Engineering for Good program.

8th Grade culminating Genocide Project.

Students had to research a specific genocide, then collect assets to use in the documentary, they also had to write a script for the narrative, choose music that reflected the time or the culture, and use iMovie to put the film together, editing sound and visuals. Check out this example of student work- a documentary about the Holocaust created by an 8th grade student in SFUSD.

Behind the Border Angels:

Student teams researched a social issue and partnered with an organization working to solve the problem. Students engaged in service learning and created a documentary. The documentaries were screened at a local theater followed by a Q&A facilitated by students.