The junior high teachers have created theme based interdisciplinary projects that incorporate all fundamental learning areas. The sixth grade teachers have created an ethnic awareness project. This project begins in the first quarter of the year and culminates with the Ethnic Celebration on April 13. In the past over 400 people have attended this event. Teachers meet before and after school on numerous occasions in order to coordinate this comprehensive project.
Students learn about the place of origin of their ancestors.
They also study biomes, currency, and the many different cultural aspects of their ancestors. Students learn to appreciate the differences and similarities of the plethora of different cultures that are represented among our students. The seventh grade teachers have created two interdisciplinary projects that also include all of the fundamental learning areas. In the fall, the students create maps of Lisle in computer class, draw their ideal rooms in art class, learn how to navigate around Lisle in social studies, learn orienteering in science, write a story about their rooms in language arts, and figure out what it would cost to decorate their ideal room in math class. The culminating event for this project is a field trip in which all seventh grade students are taken to Waterfall Glen to work through an orienteering course.