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At Bowen and more so at Beaver I've been required to do several major projects. I've written up a summary of those here. I've also done web sites for a few smaller projects, and I've included those here, too.

The projects are listed in reverse chronological order -- most recent first.

Ancient Mesopotamia

In February I did a project on Ancient Mesopotamia with three classmates. Our topic was Arts and Technology. The project was to create a museum exhibit, complete with presentations, activities, displays, artifacts, and handouts. To view the mini-site for our project, click here.

Creative Science Project

The big 6th Grade project at Beaver is the Cultural Research Project. In 7th Grade, it's the CHP. In 8th Grade, students must complete the CSP.

The first step of the CSP is to pick a scientific issue facing the world. My topic is the reversal of the Earth's magnetic poles. From there, students must create a presentation board, write a speech and paper, and design & make a "creative element" to demonstrate their issue in an interesting way. My creative element was a model of the globe with a magnet inside to demonstrate the effect of a magnetic field reversal.

While I was doing the project, I envisioned creating a little mini-site here, much like my Time Travel one. Eventually, though, that idea died out due to lack of time. Nevertheless, I still have plenty to show here.

• Photos: Making my Creative Element

• Presentation [COMING SOON]

• Paper [COMING SOON]

For more school downloads, click here.

Cultural Heritage Project

Every year, in 7th Grade, students at Beaver Country Day School must do the Cultural Heritage Project (CHP). Different aspects of the project are completed in different classes, and it spans several months. It is, by far, the biggest project of the year. It entails a presentation board, a speech, and a paper about your ancestors and how they came to this country.

For my CHP, I detailed my maternal great-grandfather's trip from Ireland many years ago.

• Photos

• Paper

For more school downloads, click here.

English: Time Travel Project

In 7th Grade English class we did a project on, strange though it may sound, time travel. We were pretending to be researchers traveling back in time to investigate the beginning of language. For it, my group and I created a web site detailing our method of time travel, our motivation, our plan, and more.

Click here to view the mini-site... and be sure to check out our sponsors!

English: Grammar Project

This was another 7th Grade English project. While studying various aspects of grammar, we were split into groups and then told to chose a grammatical topic and teach a class on it. My duo's topic was sentence structure. We had a class handout, a brief sheet of homework, and a brief web-based quiz to use during our class.

Click here to view the quiz.

Cultural Research Project

Beaver is exceptionally fond of three-letter acronyms. I've had to do a CRP, CHP, CSP, CEP, IWP, and two different kinds of IRP -- one an Independent Reading Project, and the other and Independent Research Project.

The first of those project that I did was the rather painful 6th Grade CRP. We were each assigned a culture, and then we researched and studied that culture throughout the year in each of our classes. My culture was the Tamil Nadu -- I spent about half my research time just finding out where it is.

I don't have too much left over from this, but here's one survivor: my Science class poster. (Ironically, we drew in Science and did a research paper in Art!) Click here for more downloads.

Special Number: 25

This is a project I did in 5th Grade Math class. We were studying different kinds of numbers and their various properties. In addition (no pun intended), we were studying factoring.

For the project I made a small web site detailing facts about the number 25, as well as why I chose it as my "special number." This was the very first time I used a web page for a school project, but it wouldn't be the last.

Click here to view my Special Number site. Be warned, it's very primitive -- after all, it was made when I was just in 5th Grade!

If only I had picked 42.