Project Title

Personal Heritage Project

Project Description

As a preliminary project to our Human Journey, we’ve designed a research project around heritage /ancestry/DNA. We start with family stories & work our way back through time using online resources, assorted documents, and (for the lucky few) DNA tests.

Learning Objectives

• Performing Research
• Grammar & Mechanics
• Using Digital Media Strategically
• Exponential Growth
• Push/Pull factors of Migration
• Science – DNA & genetics

Subjects

• Science
• Technology
• Math
• ELA
• Social Studies

Grade Levels

• 9th

“We learn who we come from in order to understand how connected we are with everyone else. This is a lesson in the history of what it means to be a human being.” –  9th grade student