Catherine Currie

"Animals Around the World - Here's My Habitat" is a multidisciplinary project developed by Currie that incorporates geography, language arts, science, math and reading. Seventh-grade students at Olsen Middle School will explore major biomes located in specific countries and discover how the biomes interact with the environment and affect human actions. Students will be graded on the five parts of the project. In Part 1: Geography - the students will do research to create a map to establish place and location of their assigned biome. In Part 2: Language Arts - students will write an "adventure story" or "autobiography" chronicling facts about the life of their biome from birth. For Parts 3 and 4: Science and Math respectively - students will construct a three-dimensional model of their biome and study their biome's population. In Part 5: Reading - the students will give a presentation on their biome and will be critiqued on their speaking skills. Currie, who lives in Plantation, hopes that this unique project will allow students of all learning abilities to see the ways the various subjects are connected, reducing the fragmentation of learning.