The students focused on an important tradition within their family and culture to create a picture book/ebook. They enjoyed the creative process and took great pride in planning and sharing.

Our final product was a giant school map put on display to help others navigate our school. We included important areas, people, rules / expectations, and things you might find there. Also included on display is a transcript/photo of our interview with a school helper, plans from our initial mapping of the school, photos of our 3D classrooms, and lots of student writing.

We will create an ABC Book on Sustainability to inspire our community to use natural resources responsibly.

For our final social studies project, students decided that they wanted to, "create a quilt in order to share with our community and our families about holiday traditions." Here is our final project! (We got the idea from studying other final projects in the Inquiry Work Gallery!)

This is an introduction activity for module 1 in which students place the dynasties studied in chronological order. Each group records three interesting facts or point of information on each dynasty card. After sharing their information with other groups they post this information on the yellow paper for the entire class to see. This stays posted in the classroom until the end of the unit for a reference tool. The gold yellow color represents is symbolic of Ancient Chinese rulers.

Students at a DLI school were able to bridge their knowledge from English to Spanish through this Inquiry Product.

Students learned all about Carol Stream and learned all about the amazing places you can visit.

Half of our class chose to innovate in our cafeteria. A student in our class brought this problem to our attention: There are not signs in the two different lunch lines in the cafeteria that tells students what items are available on each line. This group created picture signs, since our building starts with kindergarten, so students know which line to join when buying lunch. We shared our innovation with our building by making a green screen video and being on our school announcements. Students changed the signs each day for the rest of the school year and then gifted the signs to the cafeteria staff since our building ends at second grade.

Students chose a final product of either a picture book, a play, or a puppet show. They had the BEST time showing their learning.

While completing the Navigating School Unit, we used shape blocks to create a map of our school. After creating this hands-on visual, we created picture versions with a few more details than the blocks allowed. Each group of students was in charge of creating a map of each of the main rooms of the school we use (classroom, office, lunchroom, library, gym, music, playground), then we all drew ourselves on one piece of paper labeled "US". We posted these up connecting each picture as well as to a (real) picture of our school building. The students enjoyed creating both versions of our school map and took great pride in having the web on display all unit.

Fourth graders created a snack business based on what they learned about economic choices. Students managed the business and donated profits to the St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center. The brochures they independently created were distributed across the school to promote the business.

Students created a quilt from family papers and a cookbook to show family foods.