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Excelling- All students are engaged in interdisciplinary instruction and long-term projects implemented throughout the school year and engage students with real-world problems in their community. Student solutions should provide evidence of integrating core concepts and skills addressed within multiple discipline standards and engineering design principles. Partners assist students throughout the process as students develop solutions.
School-Wide Driving Question: How can we improve nutrition and promote a sustainable agriculture in our community?
1st grade PBL .pptxThese images are of the area around White Elementary School from the years 2005 and 2025. They are used as a starting point for grade levels when discussing our school wide and grade level driving questions. After students have discussed the driving questions, they will work as a grade to identify potential problems to solve throughout the year.
Click on the links below to see specific work each grade level has done.
2024-2025 Improvements to our school-wide driving question:
Brenda Moss from NWGA RESA led a planning session on PBLs and Driving Questions with all of our grade levels. As a school, we worked to create an overarching driving question related to a community-based problem, and each grade level created their individual driving questions based on the school-wide PBL.
New focus: Improving nutrition, decreasing food scarcity, and promoting sustainable agriculture
We used the United Nations' 17 sustainable goals to help us narrow down a focus that is prevalent in our local community. "No Hunger" is the one that hits home the most, given the high number of free/reduced lunch and Backpack Buddies program participation.
School Gardens
School Gardens
White Elementary has multiple school-wide garden beds. Each season, students help plant, harvest and maintain the garden beds.
Here are two pictures from when our gardens were first started!
1st grade farm to table
1st grade farm to table
First grade students harvested their cabbage and shared with all first-grade students in the cafeteria.
2nd grade farm to table
2nd grade farm to table
With the help of ESOL friends, 2nd grade Garden Club members harvested their lacinto kale and made crispy kale chips! They added various herbs and spices to the kale leaves, baked them in the oven, and served them to classmates during lunch.
5th grade farm to table
5th grade farm to table
5th Grade Garden Club learned how to prepare and serve their sugar snap peas they grew from seed! The students planted, cared for, and harvest the peas in their school garden. Their tasty treat was served to the students and teachers during lunch.
The students are planting Busch Beans into planters they made out of newspaper. They put them under the lights and watered them until they were ready to be transplanted into the garden bed.
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