Project Based Learning Projects
Mrs. Taylor Pellegrini
Students designed and built models to replace the West Valley Green Bridge, then presented their plans to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners.
Mrs. Taylor Pellegrini
Students worked in groups to create Businesses and pitch them to a panel of “Sharks” in order to make a deal.
Mr. Wes Sheffer
Students use pictures as variables to practice their math skills. Topics include order of operations, solving for a variable, and finding missing values.
Mr. Wes Sheffer
Students were given a dragon on a piece of paper and were instructed to enlarge it using the correct scale factor.
Mrs. Katie Hogg
Students studied their own identities through journaling, discussion, and a close reading of the graphic novel, American Born Chinese. In addition, students participated in a comics workshop with award-winning graphic novelist, Matt Phelan, and created their own graphic novels to represent important aspects of their identity.
Mrs. Katie Hogg, Miss Becky Edelmayer, Miss Jenny Roberts
Students created Banned Books displays throughout the high school in order to promote intellectual freedom and curiosity. Students shared their displays with the student body through an interactive GooseChase scavenger hunt throughout the school.
Mr. Eric Gershman, Mrs. Audrey Walsh, Miss Jenny Roberts
The seeds of this project were sown during the “Elements of PBL” professional development session last summer. For this project, ELA 9 Ac students took a close look at their own identities during a close reading of The House on Mango Street. Students charted aspects of their identities, created a scrapbook collage, engaged in a design thinking workshop and ultimately designed and appliqued a quilt square that represented them. This project culminated in a class quilt exhibited alongside artifacts of the process in a display case in a main corridor of the HS.
Mr. Pat Kelly
In groups of three, students created pieces of art to symbolically represent the human, economic, and social-political costs of war. Selected pieces were displayed in the Free Library of Springfield Township and auctioned off, with all of the proceeds going to organizations identified and researched by the students.
Mr. Kevin Maharaj
Students explored the physical and chemical changes of matter through in-class and a tradeshow style family demonstration night. The variety of experiments covered an entire year of chemistry in just three weeks. Students presented to various audiences, which included, their classmates, the school community, and to parents.
Mrs. Sara Noce
Students plan, design, and create a product and present to a panel of sharks.
Mr. Adam Washam
Students researched different psychological disorders and the impact they have on individuals, their families and society. The goal of the project was to help spread awareness for mental health and give those suffering a place to seek help.
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