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Agassiz Performing Arts Bugsy Busts the Bad Guys! As part of the Agassiz Crew Club, students will produce the musical “Bugsy Malone Jr.” Students will create sets, costumes, props and be trained in sound and light design and operation. Nicholas Hall - Jan Heyn-Cubacub
Armstrong, G Fine Arts Indian Sari Design Students will learn how art elements play a role in the creation of fabric design in different cultures. They will create sari designs and display theirs in an Indian folk tale production at International Day. Stephanie Katele - Denise Pellikan
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Ashburn Language Arts Our Great Migrations After learning about The Great Migration using primary sources and secondary sources, students will conduct research and create a scrapbook to illustrate how Chicago became their hometown. Yolanda Lewis
Ashburn Fine Arts Tiny Pieces, Big Project! Students will learn the process of creating mosaic artwork to add to an existing installation. They will teach this process to a parent/guardian in an after school workshop. Suzanne Drake
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Ashburn Fine Arts Keys to Reading Students will research and learn about the history, composers, and songs of Classical, Blues, Jazz, Folk and Country. Then, the keyboards will be used to play simple songs from these genres. Kristin Smith
Azuela Fine Arts Drama: The Wizard of Oz To celebrate our inaugural year for a drama program at Azuela, students will participate in an improvisational club as well as the classic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Sara Hritz
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Azuela Service Learning Lights! Camera ACTivism! Students will use claymation and film techniques to spread awareness about social justice topics that are important to their social and emotional growth, such as bullying and pollution. Sara Simon
Azuela Service Learning Crafty Connections! Azuela students will build meaningful relationships with our neighbors at an elderly care facility located next door to our school. Students will visit monthly and work with seniors to create crafts. Sara Simon
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Belmont Cragin Gardening Connecting to Nature Students will learn the parts of plants, the process to grow plants and how to care for them. They will learn how to work with others, to negotiate, how to design and build a planter. Parents will help through visits with designing, building, painting and stocking the planter. Guadalupe A. Diaz - Tania V.-Sanchez
Belmont Cragin Social Studies Joy Around the World Students of grades 2-8, will research and prepare a power point presentation of facts about a country of their choice. Classrooms will rehearse and perform music and song from their selected countries at an end of year assembly. Albert Cordero - Cynthia Wolski, Mireya Muhlberger, Justin Pallante, Ruth Muhlberger, Soraya Ramos, Jannette Moya, Brenda Jimenez
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Boone Performing Arts Destination Dance Destination Dance immerses students in the study of dances from around the world and gives them the opportunity to develop original cultural choreography. Gina Spears
Boone Fine Arts Garden Mosaics Students will create individual mosaic tile stepping stones for the school garden and will decorate planters for the main entrance. The mosaics will depict the Boone five core values for behavior. Gail Locke
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Cameron Performing Arts - Music Orff Ensemble Students will learn to create and perform music using the Orff method.They will learn scales, ostinato, melody, harmony as well as ensemble, teamwork and community. Students will lead performances of student-based creations. Arturo Fuerte
Carson Performing Arts - Music Orff Instruments Students will be introduced to music during and after-school using the Orff method. They will learn to read music, play instruments and learn musical vocabulary. They will learn social skills such as sharing and taking responsibility and will perform occasionally at school events. Stefanie Britton
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Chicago Academy - Ele Performing Arts - Music Xylophones Keep Growing Students will learn to read and perform musical notation and to add more chords and harmonies to what they currently play. They will learn through videotaping and using a rubric to self assess their learnings. Students will perform at school events throughout the year. Carolyn Williams
CICS - W Belden Performing Arts An African Folk Tale Students will study the genre of African folk tales and study the text of “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears.” To prepare for a performance, they will learn songs and musical skills, drama skills such as blocking mime and art skills such as set and costume design. Anna Ausmann - Holly Gore, Doug Lyerly
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Clay Performing Arts Clay Puppet Theatre Students will write, perform and create their own puppets as a way to show comprehension and to perform their stories using a puppet theater. Tom Brady - Suzanne Stepek, June Robles, Leslie Weems- Hannah
Clinton Fine Arts Lights, Camera, Literacy! Students will work in groups to compose melodic themes on Orff instruments for the characters in the book "Nathaniel Willy, Scared Silly". They will perform the story, bringing new life to its characters. Jana Martin - Meghan Tokunaga-Scanlon
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Dawes Gardening Come and Eat! Students will plan, plant and care for a community garden so that they can learn about the environment and contribute to their community. They will work together to enhance our community garden. Amani Abuhabsah - Julie Fitzpatrick
Dawes Fine Arts Little Picassos Students will focus on nature and the environment as they learn fine art skills, practice teamwork, build confidence to create finished pieces. Classes will discuss each others work which will be presented in a Gallery during Earth Week. Patricia Fuentes Landeros
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De Diego Social Studies FOOD FOR THOUGHT Students will study world hunger as well as waste of food in schools and present possible solutions. Ideas will be generated to create wall murals around three doors to the school lunchroom. Work on the murals will develop skills for geometry, patterning/design and architecture. Ruth Evermann - Juan Madrigal, Christiana Lee, Sendi Cantero, Erica Reisch
Disney Science Agents of change Students will create and develop inventions and solutions using the Makey Makey invention kit, lap top, and every day objects. They will demonstrate their findings for other students in the school. Nicole Rosenthal
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Disney Mathematics Math Mind Games Students will create fun math activities using Mensa to
enhance their use of logic. Yollande Gottlieb
Disney II Fine Arts Fused Glass Students will learn the process of fused glass, including coefficients, and create a permanent fused glass mural that integrates earth science as the subject matter. Mary Haddad - Mr. Watkins
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Edwards Fine Arts Family Arts Night Series Middle school students and parents will participate in an ongoing family arts creation series, in which each family will create prints and artist books, culminating in an arts exhibition. Emma Ott - Maria Gaytan
Edwards Language Arts We Learn Together Students will create murals using primary sources from Chicago history and learn skills needed to analyze those sources. Students will also create murals on famous poems and soliloquies along with poetic devices. Dolly Tovar - Martha Balcazar
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Fiske Fine Arts New Music at Fiske Students will gain a deeper knowledge of music and cultural diversity. They will learn to read music and be introduced to various instruments. Heidi Hilgenberg
Franklin Fine Arts Fine Arts How Art Works Students will learn by teaching their school community how art works. Workshops will be designed by middle school students and the resulting projects will showcase the art of grades K - 8. Margaret Koreman - Christian Meenaghan, Paula Clark, Amanda Olson, Anne Gray, Libby Robertson
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Franklin Fine Arts Performing Arts Pirate Musical Students will combine their skills in drama, music, dance, and art to stage, rehearse, design, and perform the musical "Captain Bree and Her Lady Pirates." Elizabeth Williams - Margaret Koreman, Anne Gray, Amanda Olson
Greeley Performing Arts - Music Concert Band Students will learn to play an instrument both individually and in ensemble. Through this program, they will learn discipline, self-reflection, listening and critical thinking. Students will hold two concerts and be encouraged to enter City-wide competition. Erik Juhl
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Gunsaulus Fine Arts GSA Guitar Class Students will learn how to perform folk songs on the acoustic guitar. They will perform for their parents, peers, and community members. Elizabeth Wontor-Leach
Haines Science Programming and Robotics Students will learn to design and program functional, practical robots while developing and applying their critical/logical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration and communication skills. Ricky Tang
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Hamline Performing Arts - Music Orff for Literacy Students in Orff for Literacy will compose and improvise on Orff instruments. Taking Dr. Seuss stories, they will set the words to music, promoting the relationship between literacy and music. Leah Stephens
Hanson Park Social Studies Welcome to the White City The students will take on an in-depth look at the World's Fair of 1893 which transformed the city of Chicago. Through this interdisciplinary study based in art and including history, literacy, math and science, they will learn about the famous people, architecture and firsts of this amazing fair. John Polhill - Shelley Eckerman, Ivan Calderon
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Hawthorne Publications Hawthorne Press Student writers, artists and editors will continue publishing The Thorne, Hawthorne's literary magazine. All students in grades 5-8 will receive copies. Fifteen students will join the editing staff. Susanna Lang
Hernandez Performing Arts - Music Orff Instruments Students in grades 6-8 will improvise music and create song and text using Orff xylophones, metallophones and classroom instruments. The text and movement to songs will be based on poems. Heidi Farrand
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Hitch Fine Arts Oh, Savanna not Georgia A group of 23 top tier K-2 students will explore the climate, animals, plants and people of the Savanna. They will create volcanoes, 3D habitats, mini-books and a power point / video presentation. Loujean Nelson - Rici Sultan
Inter-American Fine Arts Ceramics of the Americas Students will study pottery both as a way to create with clay and to learn about the ceremonies, traditions and daily life of various cultures from the pre-Columbian Americas as they used clay. Alex Mendez
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Inter-American Fine Arts Street Art Students will study ways that street art is used throughout the world to express ideas. Students will create their own works which will be displayed in the school where they will host several viewings. Alex Mendez
Inter-American Performing Arts Tap Dance Students will learn tap dance using math, rhythm and timing. They will showcase their new skills at a performance for the school community and perhaps for a National Tap Dance Day celebration in Chicago. Amy Ahmed
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Jamieson Fine Arts Sumi-e and Shi Students will create Japanese paintings, or sumi-e, to accompany their Japanese poetry, or shi. Students' original tanka, renga, and haiku poems will be bound with their art in rice paper booklets. Rosemary Barilla - Diane Franco
Kershaw Gardening Seeds of Understanding Special education students will be the creators of a garden that will become a focus of school education in plant life cycle and student involvement in outdoor gardening. Students will use yielded crops in a cultural fair in June. Lauren Carlos
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Lee Fine Arts Mural, Tapestry & Benches Students will work cooperatively to accomplish several fine art projects - an outdoor mural, an indoor tapestry, and benches for a courtyard - aimed at beautifying the school campus inside and out. Sean Brice - Rayshawn Nowlin
Lee Fine Arts Remixing Sculpture Students will focus on the transformation, repurposing and utilization of materials discarded or normally perceived as trash into public works of art. They will participate in the creative planning, building and installing works of art. Rayshawn Nowlin
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Lincoln Science Eighth Grade Engineers Eighth grade students will complete engineering challenges and perform chemistry experiments, such as designing hot air balloons and creating prototypes of personal floatation devices. Susan Nutter
Lincoln Science Eco Citizens Fifth grade students will assume roles of citizen scientists as they design and implement practical conservation efforts and awareness campaigns for biodiversity in our school and local community. Amy Andrews
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Lincoln Science The Robots are Coming! Students will explore the science of robotics, using math, engineering and logical, spacial and critical reasoning using Leo Mindstorms EV3 robotics kits. Students will meet challenges within the class, present to other classes and finally to parents and the community. Ned Harkness
Lloyd Mathematics Family Fun and Games In order to increase and observe parent involvement, students will learn new games and puzzles so that they become experts at playing a variety of them. Then, we will invite parents to play with them. Angelica Aguilar
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Lorca Fine Arts Mascot Mosaics Students will design and create individual mosaics of the school's mascot, the orca whale. The art will be permanently displayed in many locations throughout the school. Lauren Klopack - Ivette Gonzalez
Lorca Science Robotics for Now & Later Student teams will create robots that solve challenges to engage diverse learners in Technology and Language Arts. Students will work in teams to challenge one another. A demonstration will be held for peers and families. Joan Mendelson - William Ferguson
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Lyon Gardening Flower Power Students will research specifics on how to design, install and maintain a school perennial garden. Students will learn about the care of a flower garden and the beautification of their community. Casey Carlock - Marianne Galassini, Migdalia Chavez, Guadalup Reyes
Lyon Fine Arts Follow the Alphabet Road Follow the alphabet road is a lesson designed to engage students in service-learning pedagogy centered on authentic problem solving of community-based issues. Casey Carlock - Dena Milano, Marianne Galassini
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Madero Middle Fine Arts Tree of Life: Nature Students will examine traditional works of Mexico and their vital connection to nature and storytelling. The study includes social studies, mathematics, language arts, nature conservation as students create an artwork of hand-made tiles and mosaic. Rita Marquez
Marquette Performing Arts Haiku in Pentatonic Students will work in groups to compose xylophone accompaniments using pentatonic and extended pentatonic scales to match the form of haiku. Videos will be shown at the school's World's Fair in May. Colleen Cetera
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McNair Gardening Growing Together Growing Together is a year-round gardening project in which students learn to grow food, nurture plants and become vested in healthy food choices. There will be school and community harvest raffles. Lisa Taylor - Yvette Thomas, Amanda Walker, Anna Khawam, Debora McKnuckles
Mitchell Performing Arts Cool Cats Students in grades 3-8 will sing, dance and perform in a production of the Disney musical "The Aristocats," a jazz inspired story that will have our actors snappin' and our audience clappin'! John Carroll - David Weeks, Katie Arbuckle
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Morton Science Furture Energy & Beyond Students will be introduced to robotics. Through a series of challenges students will create a Green City using computer programming and robotics to design energy solutions. Kendra Mallory - Rosalind Ali
Mozart Performing Arts - Music The Ukulele Project II The students will begin by constructing their own ukuleles, designing them and painting them. They will then learn how to play and will perform on their own ukuleles at the end of the year. Rachel Atlas
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Murphy Performing Arts Fiddle Fundamentals Fourth graders will learn basic violin skills with a classroom instrument. Students will learn to care for the violin and to apply rosin. They will learn proper posture, finger and bow. Sandy Lucas
Murphy Performing Arts Shakespeare in the Garden Students will create an outdoor performance and adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the school's annual, interactive Fine Arts Festival. Marion Victorson
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Nightingale Fine Arts A Mermaid's Tale Students will explore the many facets of live musical theater while discovering their true voices within the crowd and developing a better sense of who they are as persons. Steven Rigik - Christina Jennings, Ginny Caponigro, Mary Ella Kelm-Palacios, Mary Ann Kennedy, Aisling Conroy
Ogden International Social Studies Who We Are Mosaics Students will learn the art of designing and constructing mosaics when creating an art project in connection with their unit focused on how our personal experiences and relationships shape who we are. Taneal Sanders - Ashley Gilski, Katrina Cabrera
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Pasteur Performing Arts Medieval Feast: Recorder Third grade music students will be introduced to the recorder and Orff instruments as used in Medieval and early Renaissance secular music. Students will explore medieval history, music and art. Aldo Mazzotti - Arturo Barrera
Portage Park Fine Arts Music Moves Me Students will enjoy exploring rhythms and melodies using diverse percussion instruments, learning folk dances of various countries and creating their own melodies, accompaniment and movement. Mark Britt
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Prieto Math / Sci Mathematics Robotics Students will have ten weeks to design, build, and successfully program a robot to accomplish a series of tasks. The project will culminate with a robotics competition. Andrew Friesema
Reilly Fine Arts The Reilly Players Students will write and present a piece of performance art based on issues in their community and neighborhood. Agnes Jasinski - Eduardo Pineda
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Reinberg Language Arts We Are the Future We are a global community, touching the corners of the Earth - from the beginning of time to the future. Students will build these connections through words, music, art and technology. Bonnie Hoffman - Jennifer Gauss, Jennifer Gibson, Stephen Twardowski, Sue Casey
Reinberg Fine Arts Modern Twist on Old Art Students will make artifacts for international week. The students will learn the significance of chosen artifacts and recreate a modern day version of the item. They will create their own gallery where they will be the docents. Stephen Twardowski
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Seward Fine Arts Our Community, Our Story Students will create murals that explore and celebrate the history and contemporary life of the Back of the Yards neighborhood. This work will encourage collaboration and creative thinking. Jessica Rosenbaum
Sherman Publications Art and Literacy Magazine Fifth - eighth grade students will launch a new publication to be given to all students in the school. Writers will study new genres to achieve new levels of self expression. Students will learn the process of soliciting, reading evaluating, editing, sorting and compiling the works. Vivian Redwood - Jessica Johnson
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Stevenson Fine Arts Mosaic Mural Using mosaics, paint and objects, students will create a mix-media mural that displays our school's rich culture and how we harmonize beautifully with diversity. Nicole Lombardi
Stock Science Young Scientists Special needs students will join all students in the school as they explore nature together to learn about butterflies. Donna Hill - Juila Joehl, Maureen Richardson, Sheri Sampey
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Stone Performing Arts The Leavitt St. Orphans Our younger students will shine as actors, singers and dancers, ignite their creativity and imagination, and grow into seasoned musical theatre performers as they prepare a production of Annie, Jr. William Marsland - Jamie Perry
Swift Performing Arts Kids, Guys, and Dolls Students will perform the production of “Guys and Dolls Junior”. Students will be a part of every aspect of the production including stage crew, scenic art, sound, lights and performance. Renee Holman - Marilyn Duff, Gordon McCall, Ben Rogers, Angela Maniaci, Sara Knox, Katie Loveland, Sandi Lerner, Samantha Gamble
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Twain Performing Arts Twain's First Band Students will have their first opportunity to play in an ensemble band. They will perform at the close of each semester at the school and perhaps at the elementary band and orchestra festival in May. Melisa Rutkelis
Vick Early Childhood Science The Train Project Special needs PreK students in the inclusion classroom will study trains to create model trains and train stations from various objects after exploring sights and sounds of nearby trains. Heather Garrett - HongBo Wang
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Ward J Performing Arts The Art of Improvisation Seventh grade students develop confidence in their own creativity as they explore rhythmic and melodic improvisation. Students design and teach an improvising workshop for fourth grade students and their families. Laura Saunders
Zapata Mathematics Quadratics and Catapults Students will collaborate and construct a catapult to learn and discover quadratic motion. In line with the mathematics portion, they will create a business plan to sell their product to the staff. Christopher McCabe - Denise Ayala
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