Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their
stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction
picture books; algebra students of all grades
investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.
Journalism plays the role of
investigating all the different strands of a
story and pulling it all together to get a true
picture of the whole
story.