Gallery — SEMIS Virtual Community Forum 2021
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Climate Change in Southwest Detroit — Stefany’s Entry
Students in Mr. Duffy's class created pieces of...
The Power of Youth: Appreciation of Essential Workers
At the beginning of the pandemic a small group of Ypsilanti High School students and teachers came together through the arts and a discussion about youth voice, what it means, and how the voices of young people can have influence in their community. We planned through April and May of 2020 and then the students created this video and invited the community to submit artwork to say thank you to the essential workers in the community. We received over 50 submissions! Mrs. Sizemore worked with a few local Kroger grocery stores who accepted these banners of gratitude for employees. Mrs. Fisk helped coordinate with a printing company to design and produce the banners.
Climate Change in Southwest Detroit — Edwin’s Entry
The Detroit Endangered Project engages students in learning Biology concepts, through an endangered/threatened species in our area. Projects culminate with action projects to help their populations rebound.
Climate Change in Southwest Detroit — Ashley and Victoria’s Entry
Students in Mr. Duffy’s class created pieces of visual art or creative writing about issues of climate change in Southwest Detroit.
Climate Change in Southwest Detroit — Andrea’s Entry
Students in Mr. Duffy’s class created pieces of visual art or creative writing about issues of climate change in Southwest Detroit.
Climate Change in Southwest Detroit — Erandi’s Entry
Students in Mr. Duffy’s class created pieces of visual art or creative writing about issues of climate change in Southwest Detroit.
Making Impermeable Pervious
Soley shares how her personal experience in concrete work helped her understand how green technology can solve environmental problems caused by humans.
A Hamtramck Perspective on Flooding
A short video describing the impacts of flooding.
Be the Change and Solar Solutions
My Challenge: Create a solution to a local environmental problem. Student Response: “Solar Solutions,” cellphone chargers for students to borrow at school. Let’s start the switch to renewables!
Beauty is in the Eye
Aminata captures transformative impact place-based education.
Detroit Endangered Project
The Detroit Endangered Project engages students in learning Biology concepts, through an endangered/threatened species in our area. Projects culminate with action projects to help their populations rebound.
Cost of Entertainment, Self-care, Wants; Cost of Travel
Student discusses with peer the cost of...
Rahma’s Eco-Project
Hello! My name is Rahma, and I am a ninth grade science student. I created this site to organize the documentation of my field site (the backyard tree ecosystem) throughout the seasons, and to show how certain cycles within the ecosystem of my field site work.
Sandra’s Eco-Project
Hello Everyone! My name is Sandra Medrano, welcome to my Eco-Project! Here on this wondrous site, you will find in detailed description of the environment in nature that I observed for the duration of a couple months. You will see the area’s evolution as seasons change.
Sangheethaa’s Eco-Project
Throughout the whole year, we made observations of our field site and how it changed as the year went on. We also learned a lot of concepts relating to what might have caused these changes. This site helps to sum up all of our knowledge on this topic.
Marcus’s Eco-Project
Hi, I’m Marcus Gharbieh. This project is about the time I spent with my field site. I’m going to go over what I learned, show some pictures, create models, explain how my site can relate to climate change, and at the end a big reflection.
Tasmiea’s Eco-Project
https://flipgrid.com/s/9oUoc2sSaW33 By: Tasmiea...
Liviana’s Eco-Project
Liviana Capatina is a 9th grader at WTMC, she’s currently taking Ms. TR’s 9th-grade science class, and loving it! This year in science class Liviana has been doing field note observations in her garden. She has made this website to share everything she has learned with you. She hopes you enjoy reading her website and maybe even learn something.
Kasydy’s Eco-Project
My name is Kasydy and I’m a 9th grade science student. Throughout both the fall and winter semester, I have spent time learning about and observing an eco-site of my choice nearly every week. I chose the beginning of the walking trail behind my house, and have been able to make close observations and learn about patterns and things I never noticed about the nature that’s been there my whole life. I’m using this platform to not only share my observations and connections I’ve made between my eco-site and the science material, but also to share how this experienced has affected me as an individual and broadened my perspective.
The Eco-Project: A Yearlong Study of a Field Site
Students completed the “Eco-Project” at a field site near their home; there, they made observations, journal entries, sketches, and reflections. These are their final websites summarizing the experience.
How Can I Make a Difference?
This is a video of the reflections of our 6th and 7th-grade students from our Earth Week activities.
How To Do An Energy Audit
During our recent energy project our classes were asked to complete the ECOWORKS Healthy Home Audit and to write a persuasive essay demanding that our school admin give (our classes) permission to install a solar array. This is a how-to showing how to complete the audit and a sample of our persuasive essays.
YCS Public Education Banner Project
The YCS Public Education Banner Project features artwork originally made to display in the U.S. Department of Education in Washington D.C. The exhibit was cancelled due to the pandemic.
Learning From and Preserving Community Stories
The Gray Wolves learned the importance of stories and methods by which to keep these stories alive for future generations. We invited community members with personal connections to Grace Lee Boggs to share stories with us so that we could learn more about the people for which our school was named and begin to better understand our place within the school.
Interview with Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
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Boggs School Pioneer Oral Histories
A sample of oral histories of families and staff that were the first to take a chance on a new school with a unique mission eight years ago.
Watershed Stewardship: Stormwater Drain Stenciling
We are in the process of locating the stormwater drains near their homes around the school, mapping the locations on MyMaps, and stenciling them to remind people only water should go down the drain.
Mill Creek Watershed Project Song with Joe Reilly
This was one of the many community activism choices the students developed as part of our work on Mill Creek. This group of students worked with Singer-Songwriter Joe Reilly to write, compose and record about Mill Creek. One of the students decided we needed a video to go along with our song and created this.
Mill Creek Watershed Project
This is a culmination of our Place-Based work around Mill Creek, including, song writing, our collaboration with the HRWC, fly tying, raising brown trout to release into the Mill Creek in collaboration with Trout Unlimited and our interactive story map work with Ducks Unlimited.
Solar Panel Persuasive Letters
During our recent energy project our classes were asked to complete the ECOWORKS Healthy Home Audit and to write a persuasive essay demanding that our school admin give (our classes) permission to install a solar array. This is a how-to showing how to complete the audit and a sample of our persuasive essays.
The Chip Bag Project
We ironed together chip bags to make sleeping bags for Detroit’s homeless population.
How We Can Help Stop Climate Change By Planting Trees
6th grader Evelyn Wybenga created this independent project that uses math and research to make an argument for the impact planting trees might have on our future.
Living On Our Own
This story shows how a project helps me understand my experiences and my interests.
Potential in My Neighborhood
This story shows how a project helps me understand my experiences and my interests.
Uriel’s Journey on Real Estate
This story shows how a project helps me understand my experiences and my interests.
Why Learn Mathematics?
Students weigh in on a PBE activity in this video. student responses to help answer the question “Why am I learning math?” Your presentation will be helpful for educators, parents, and students.
Paycheck Stub
Student discusses with peer the paycheck stub assignment. In this assignment, the student estimated amount of pay needed to pay bills.
Photos of Place
These drawings depict beauty and nature’s resistance that were seen on a walk in a student’s neighborhood.
Photos of Place
These drawings depict beauty and nature’s resistance that were seen on a walk in a student’s neighborhood.
How do I enjoy friends safely when social distancing?
This video is an account of what a student learned about social distancing using mathematics.
Beauty and Calm in My Community
The photo journals capture what a student saw in their community.
Signs of Spring in my Neighborhood (House and Plants)
This photo journal captures what a student saw in their community. The student is excited about discovering this drawing software.
Nature’s Resistance
This photo journal depicts a student’s impression of nature.
Community Mapping with GIS
Mr. Segrist and Place-based Education has helped me learn and become more aware of my community’s history and how it has affected its current situation and surroundings. I’ve shown a connection between ArcGIS Online through EMU. I used story mapping, a geospatial platform, to share my community mapping.
Community Mapping with GIS
We were given a class project on community mapping and sense of place. It was an opportunity to exercise student voice and learn how to map. When walking around my neighborhood, I learned a lot about the lack of effort that is put into keeping our area safe and clean.
Drinking Water
A video by Landon McKinney.
Environmental Awareness
A powerpoint by Derek Mitter.
Making Detroit a Better Place
Grace Lee Boggs once asked Julia Putnam what she could do as a young person to help Detroit be a better place. The Rainbows asked ourselves the same question. This project is our answer to that question.