by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Step into a project where students connect with the people around them by listening to real stories from their community. Through interviews and shared memories, they learn how everyday voices help shape and care for a place. The audience will experience these stories...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
In the YCHS Botany CTE we expand biodiversity by using different native plants and flowers in our landscaping projects, greenhouse, and plant sale. At the end we will demonstrate how to propagate native trees from cuttings. By: Elijah Acheampong, Grace Kiba, Milo...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Applying Master Rain Garden skills to assess and provide care to the rain gardens on YCS campuses, Biology students will share their processes for amending the soil, replacing plants and checking levels to ensure proper drainage from the garden. By: Teliah Hinton,...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Step into the world of chefs and cosmetologists as we explore how IB Mathematics supports sustainability and decision-making in service industries. This presentation focuses on how students use mathematical modeling to reduce food waste, manage inventory, and analyze...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Our class will be sharing our learning journey as we explored and discovered issue with the watershed in both our community, and right on our playground. We will what we learned noticed, learned and some solutions that we have found that will help keep our water clean...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Students were challenged by the City of Dexter to choose the 450 trees to be given out on Arbor Day. Once the trees were selected and ordered, students created brochures to give to community members as they picked up trees from several locations around Dexter. Part of...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Students have been learning about the invasive grasses that grow along Mill Creek in Dexter. We found out that a team of environmental scientists are planning a removal project and we wanted to know how we could help. Wylie 3rd graders worked with UM graduate students...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Learn about the Great Lakes Watershed and think about solutions to problems focused around fishing, water, the benthos and changing weather patterns. Our class is going to experience an amazing adventure as we go sailing on Grand Traverse Bay and conduct experiments...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Our 4th-grade students are using their research and writing skills to inform the public and advocate for a better future in Michigan! Join us as students present on critical conservation issues, including protecting the Great Lakes water supply and saving endangered...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Students researched and explored the role of food insecurity in our school community and throughout the city of Detroit. We identified opportunities to collaborate with our student groups and community partners to identify small, but meaningful action steps to...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Students were challenged by the City of Dexter to choose the 450 trees to be given out on Arbor Day. Once the trees were selected and ordered, students created brochures to give to community members as they picked up trees from several locations around Dexter. Part of...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Students have been learning about the invasive grasses that grow along Mill Creek in Dexter. We found out that a team of environmental scientists are planning a removal project and we wanted to know how we could help. Wylie 3rd graders worked with UM graduate students...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Join us for a presentation on our classes’ journey to building a rain garden at our Detroit High School! This presentation will discuss how the power of choice was given to the students on a project fighting against the effects of climate change. This session...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
The 9th grade at Mumford has been examining the issues that restrict opportunity at their school. They have been contacting members of the community to lift their concerns. In this presentation they will describe the results of their community inventory storytelling...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 4, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Join students from John R. King Academic and Performing Arts Academy as they share their experiences learning about plastic pollution and its environmental impact. They will highlight hands-on activities that deepened their understanding and showcase apparel designs...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 2, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Seventh graders at the James and Grace Lee Boggs School investigated the stray problem in our Islandview community. Using what we learned in math, social studies and ELA, they worked on a yearlong project to research and advocate for our homeless animals in our...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 31, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Islandview has a cement problem and the sidewalk is being damaged. This is important because it could become a tripping hazard. Our goal is to get the government to pay more attention to Islandview and other neighborhoods cement problem. It can be hard for people in...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 31, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
We have learned about local pollinators, how they help plants grow and survive, and how to help support them in our local environment! 🙂 By: Noa Rosen, Chloe Stevens, Lucy Tanabe-Langton, Monet, Lochlan, 2nd Teacher: Michelle Sheng, The James and Grace Lee Boggs...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 29, 2026 | Community Forum 2026
Come join us for a fun story told by our very own mascot, Griz the Cub, along with Griz’s Green Team! Griz will tell you how our old food scraps and “yucky” trash turned into rich, healthy soil for our garden-Wow! We will also show you our brand-new...
by SEMIS Coalition | Jun 1, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Students learned about Maple Syrup and its importance for indigenous tribes across the Great Lakes. By: Jesse, Lucy, Teagan and Emmy, 3rd Grade Teacher: Jim Barnes, Wylie Elementary, Dexter Type: Powerpoint Click on the links above to see other gallery entries...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 31, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Our 3rd grade students had the incredible opportunity to collaborate with singer-songwriter and environmental educator Joe Reilly to create an original song about their personal connections to nature. Through a blend of storytelling, reflection, and music, students...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 31, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Third graders learned about indigenous tribes in Michigan and their culture, stories and traditions. One of these learnings was around Manoomin, wild rice that was an important winter food for indigenous tribes across the Great Lakes. Students researched rice camps...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 25, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
First, we will describe our place-based activities from garden club this year and then we will show you how to make and your own mint tea and plant seeds harvested from our garden! By: Aiden Bodary, Lizzy Moore, Ephraim Kisia, Chris Greer, and Zeke Matthews, 9th-10th...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 25, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
This timeline looks at how population has changed from 1930 to present day in Ypsilanti Michigan, and the consequences of those changes, including how the physical environment and opportunities for the population have changed. By: Danasia Murphy-Roberts, Basile...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 25, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Biology students will apply their Master Rain Gardener skills to assess and maintain the rain gardens on the Ypsilanti Community High School campus. As part of this hands-on environmental stewardship project, students will evaluate soil conditions and determine...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 25, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Students began the year looking at the quality of the water in Mill Creek by assessing what living things were (or weren’t) present. They have continued learning about biodiversity in many different biomes and now are looking at healthy and unhealthy Riparian...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 25, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Wylie Elementary students wondered about the Huron River Watershed. We came up with these questions: How can you tell if a river’s watershed is healthy? How healthy is the Huron River? What are ways that we can help the community keep the Huron River and Watershed...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 25, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Our third grade students received a challenge letter from the city of Dexter to help them pick out tree species to be handed out for the annual Arbor Day event. The city gave students criteria of how to pick the best trees- such as making sure they were native to...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 25, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
The Eber/Bowman Fourth Grade Team at Wylie Elementary in Dexter researched Michigan Watersheds and our favorite Michigan Rivers. We used data from The Huron River Watershed Council website to learn about the whole Huron River Creekshed. We learned about the healthy...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 25, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
The Eber/Bowman Fourth Grade Team at Wylie Elementary in Dexter researched Michigan Watersheds and our favorite Michigan Rivers. We researched the impact that humans have on rivers. We used the school Stream Table to create an unhealthy river and came up with ways...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 24, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Students will display their proposed policy changes to the county’s sustainability plan based on what they have learned through an interdisciplinary unit on gentrification. By: Brailyn Hiemstra, Charles Harding, Jozef Jason, Harper Keelan, Bria Powell, Tamia...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 24, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Students will present on their argument for a more sustainable method of world conflict resolution based on their findings about air toxins and the Willow Run Bomber Plant contributions to WWII. By: Arianna Inman, Samuel Bentley, Emma Berehendt, Riley Eilertson,...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 24, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Our 5th-grade class visited Freedom Dreams, a community land trust on Detroit’s East Side and the neighborhood where the Boggs School began. As the first class to explore the space, students engaged in hands-on activities that centered on community, creativity, and...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 24, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Students were invited to share original art, poetry, photography, and writing with Riverwise Magazine for their special collection on hope and healing. In a world filled with challenges, students took time to reflect, create, and express what matters most to them —...
by SEMIS Coalition | May 24, 2025 | Community Forum 2025, Student Gallery
Exploring the Detroit Riverwalk By: Madeline Kinkead, Merrill Kinkead, Grace Tanabe-Longton, Kairos Bloom, Jayce Pratt, 5th Grade Teacher: Spencer Price, James and Grace Lee Boggs School, Detroit Type: PowerPoint Click on the links above to see other gallery entries...
