Public Services, ELA and History

Community Policing in Today's Society

• Taking an active role in improving police/community relations
• A historical look at policing practices
• Communicating in law enforcement

ITC:

#PeaceLoveCode - Using Coding to Build a Positive Online Image

• Using coding to build a positive online image
• Writing algorithms
• Debugging errors
• Coding a unique new emoji

Engineering, ELA, Math & Science

Delivering the Goods: A Study of Hurricanes and Hydraulics

• Building a hydraulic arm
• Using data and ratio tables
• Contributing factors to hurricane intensity
• Distributing supplies

Education/Child Devt and Culinary

School Lunch Dietitian Detective

• History and Criteria for School Menus
• Creating a School Lunch Survey
• Designing a School Lunch Menu

Engineering, ELA and Social Science

The Big One is Coming: Preparing for a California Earthquake

• Wave properties
• How load affects structures
• Plate tectonics
• Building a “Shake Table”

Arts, Media & Entertainment

Changing the World, One Documentary at a Time

• The What and Why of Documentary
• Research, research and more research
• The Documentary Production Cycle

Engineering, ELA and Math

Through the Wall - Sustainable Wall Panel Design

• Selecting materials for a wall panel
• Writing effectively in engineering
• Direct and inverse relationships
• R-Factors, Heat Transfer and Asymptotes

Information & Communication Technologies

Arduino-Controlled Rube Goldberg Machine

• Design, build and code a simple machine
• Build a simple circuit
• Use Arduino to program a lever or motor

Fashion and INterior Design:

Dirty Secrets of the Fashion Industry

• The true cost of cheap clothing
• Rights and Responsibilities of Employers and Employees
• Ethical Practices in the Fashion Industry

ITC and Business & Finance

Ellie The Entrepreneur - How to Start Your Own Business

• ITC: Creating a Website
• Business & Finance: Credit, Investing, and Getting a Loan
• ELA: The Concept of the “Hedgehog”

Fashion and INterior Design:

Designing for Accessibility

• Trapped...in your Own Home?
• Selecting Furnishings with Accessibility in Mind
• Designing an Accessible House

AME: Digital Photography

Digital Darkroom: Photoshop and Photography

• Create double and multiple exposures digitally
• Rendering compelling HDRI images using multiple exposures
• Simulations of large format photography

Public Services, ELA, Science and VAPA

Who Done It? Crime Scene Investigation

• Gathering and analyzing evidence
• Crime scene photos and sketches of the scene
• Identify blood, take fingerprints and extract DNA
• Perform a Mock Trial

AME meets Math & French:

There’s an App for That!

• Mobile Apps: History and Creation
• Planning a trip to a foreign country
• International Currency and Economic Trade

AME meets fashion Design:

Fashion & Design: Creating a Clothing Line

• Develop a sportswear apparel prototype
• Use Adobe Illustrator to design original apparel
• Create a Tech Pack Document for apparel manufacturing and production

Computer Programming + ELA:

Planning a Benefit Concert

• Exploring current social issues
• Planning an event: Researching issues, artists, venues
• Python programming and the music industry

All Areas

Communication Skills

• Identifying feeling types
• Matching body language, facial expressions and voice inflection
• Types of interactions
• Creating Role-Plays to practice communication skills

Information & Communication Technologies:

How Do I Prepare for a Career in Cyber Security?

• History of Cyber Security and...SPIES!
• State of current technology
• Identify training and certifications
• Pitch a Cyber Security program

Agriculture:

Do the Rot Thing: Waste Management

• Principles of Composting Organic Material
• Regenerating Ecosystems
• Create a Waste Management Plan using Compost

AME:

Building a Successful Skatepark

• Video Production: Promo-Video Package to promote the Skatepark
• Graphic Design: Business Logos and Visual Promotional materials
• Math: Skatepark obstacle design models and budget/finance projections

Would you survive the

• Modeling and marketing a survival structure
• Triangulation and exponential growth of a “zombie virus”
• Analyzing media credibility

Zombie Apocalypse?

ICT & Business and Finance

Agriculture & Natural Resources:

Battle of the Seeds: Biotechnology Use in Ag

• Controversy: Are seeds intellectual property?
• Hybridization, selective breeding and genetic engineering in plants
• Perform a growth trial utilizing different types of corn

AME, ELA and Science:

Changing One's Tune: A Music Therapy Project

• Creating a music therapy space
• Making musical instruments
• Waves and sound in physics
• Analysis and dialogues on adolescent stress and anxiety

PUblic Service, forensics & science:

Who's Getting Away? Finding a Pattern using Forensics

• Explore a Hit and Run Accident
• Newton’s Laws of Cooling
• Lipstick and Footprint Science
• Creating a Crime Scene Cookbook

All Areas

Pre-Job Skills Training

• Getting a Job: Expectations Vs. Reality
• Sexual Harassment
• On the Job Safety
• Create a Job Handbook

Agriculture & Natural Resources:

Developing an Environmental Impact Report

• Observing a Site: Soil Quality, Wildlife
• Public Policy
• Develop an Environmental Impact Report

Information & Communication Technologies:

How Do I Prepare for a Career in Robotics?

• History of Robots and Technology
• Robots on Earth, under the Sea and in Space
• Training and Certifications

Agriculture:

How Sweet it Is: Grafting Apple Trees

• The value and importance of apple cultivation
• Apple varieties
• Grafting apple tree scions to apple trees

Manufacturing:

Manufacturing a Model Steam Engine

• Create a working model steam engine
• Analyze machine part prints
• From a paper model to CAD/CAM practice

AME, ELA & Science:

Trash Transformations: Landscapes of Change

• Trashy art as...Activism?
• Identity and Impact: How Lifestyle affects the Environment
• Yellowstone, Wolves and Rivers

AG meets Business:

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

• Create a fully functioning, sustainable CSA
• Deliver fruits and vegetables grown on an on-site garden
• CSA Documentation

Marketing, Sales and Service

Marketing Faux Pas!

Globalization through International Marketing

• What is a “Global Citizen”?
• International Marketing disasters
• Conduct marketing research
• Present findings to a Board of Directors

Culinary

Making Chicken Parmesan and a Classic Italian Meal

• Exploring Italian Cuisine
• Chicken Parmesan from scratch
• The perfect Italian Dressing

Animal Science, Ag SOil Science, ELA and Math

Creating a Commercial Chicken Cooperative

• Building a school hen-laying operation
• Effects of livestock on the environment
• Evaluating laws and regulations
• Cost/Benefit analysis

Hospitality, Tourism, and Recreation

Design and Create a Food Truck

• History and Evolution of Food Trucks
• Explore menus and themes
• Create a “real” model Food Truck

AME, Engineering & ELA:

Creating an Underwater Robot & Manual

• Electricity basics, building circuits, applying the wired circuits to an electrical machine
• Producing a technical manual in print and for the web
• ESL: Scaffolding in reading nonfiction science texts

AME, ELA and Science:

Identity in the New Age

• Develop visual stories that express the human experience
• Stories as “Cultural DNA”
• DNA both codes our uniqueness and reveals our startling similarities

Agriculture & Natural Resources:

Aquifying our Groundwater

• What’s in our water: The Flint Water Crisis
• Building an Aquifer
• Chemical Titration
• Creating a Powerful TED Talk

Public Service and Science:

Crime Scenes as Assessment Tools

• Set up and process a crime scene
• Use PERKs (Physical Evidence Recover Kits)
• Detect blood and amylase

Yes! I Wrote a 10 Page Script

• Creating a 10-page script in a program such as Celtx
• Character development, story structure, dialogue
• Submission of final script to Film Festival

Podcast Crime, Serial Style

• The Peabody award-winning true-crime Internet audio drama “Serial”
• Forensic Science and Crime Scene Evidence
• Writing a Compelling Script
• Recording a Podcast as an Audio Engineer

Agriculture & Natural Resources:

There’s an App for That: Ag Irrigation Practices

• Experiment with soil, water and temperature to find out how these variables affect water retention
• Create an irrigation app using AppMakr
• Make a pitch for the app to their peers

INformation & Comm Technologies:

Creating Websites for Teachers

• Creating subject-matter webpages for teachers on campus
• Using an HTML Editor
• Modifying HTML code to create a “Flipbook”

Health Science & Medical Tech:

To Vape or Not to Vape?

• What does limited lung capacity feel like?
• Build a respiratory system out of clay
• Evaluate the health implications of e-cigarette use
• Create a health awareness campaign

INformation & Comm Technologies:

Tech Tales: Level One Tech Support Service Calls

• Common personality types of customers
• The Six Steps of the Troubleshooting Process
• Complete a "real world" simulation of an actual IT Level One Technical Support call

Agriculture & Natural Resources:

The Power of a Healing Garden

• The effects of war on mental health
• Proposal for a therapeutic garden
• Pitching an idea using persuasive skills
• Design using Sketchup application

Information & Comm Technologies:

The Puppy Project: Algorithms and Objects for Beginning Java Coders

• Exploring the object oriented language of Java
• Creating a Java Program which simulates a collection of the world’s cutest, most awesome dogs

AME: Hear Me!

• Collaborate to produce and publish scored interviews and narratives
• Submit interviews to the Library of Congress through Story Corp
• Music, English Language-Arts, Special Education

Agriculture & Natural Resources

Preventing the Superbug: Antibiotics and Ag

• Linking Agriculture, Social Studies, Science, and English Language-Arts
• The Role of the Government in Regulation
• Methods of Persuasion

Engineering & Architecture:

Creating a Martian Society

• Design and construct a model of a sustainable habitat
• Create a colony constitution
• Model growth trends to predict population growth
• Create a Martian dialect, language, custom, and social norms

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