This was a one-week inquiry project on the idea of what is right/fair/just.
We gathered 7 classes and 92 students to work on this project.
It was interdisciplinary and mixed grades.
The topics students inquired ranged from inequities in the college admissions process to poaching, and global food pollution to voting rights.
The goals were:
Collaborative inquiry-based project between all our classes
Promote interdisciplinary inquiry work
Test inquiry approach and research process
More philosophically, this was an opportunity for students to think about issues in a non-siloed way. They can be in Spanish class or history class and work with students from math class or philosophy to try and understand problems from multiple angles.
The idea is that learning does not belong to a particular class, it belongs to the students and how they make sense of it all.