Innovation hubs are positioned throughout our school’s media center, the heart of our campus.  Students tinker with art and recyclable materials, wood working tools, fabric, sewing machines, technology, and more to bring their ideas to life.  If students can imagine it, they can make it! Equally, they engage in the process of design through an iterative approach, Design Thinking.

A foundational component of the C-PBL model is a change making experience, tied to a community partner organization.  Fieldwork at our partner sites occurs at the beginning of a project, to pique student curiosity.  Long-term memory retention is enhanced following a high curiosity state.  Students conduct quantitative and qualitative research in our Mobile Learning Lab, with the goal of making a positive impact for the community’s people, animals, or natural environment. The learning lab consists of researcher packs with measuring tools, specimen collection boxes, data notebooks, & technology.  

A designated exhibit area, our Natural History Museum, allows students to highlight their current work which is later archived and stored according to specimen type. Teachers use the museum artifacts for classroom project centers or as teaching models. Showing students that their work has a long-term purpose allows them to appreciate learning as a meaningful activity. They take great pride in their museum.