5-11 year olds • Lower School

Project Library

Past Projects for Elementary Students

Projects can take on many sizes, shapes, and forms!

Over the last decade, our elementary school students have written novels, built sail-powered rail cars, explored social studies through mathematics, dived deep into marine biology, flown high in weather balloons, and so much more.

Click through the photos below to read more about these explorations and the projects that emerged out of the kids’ curiosities, questions, and ideas.

A woman with braided blonde hair and a face mask watching two small aquariums with aquatic plants at a store.
Tank World
Children outdoors sitting on a large fallen tree, engaging in writing or drawing with notebooks and pens, some wearing face masks, surrounded by greenery and blue sky.
park stories
Colorful hand-drawn sketch of a house, bed, and laundry scene, with speech bubbles and notes, drawn by a child's hand wearing a watch and holding a marker.
Two people setting up a small sailboat with a red sail on railroad tracks near a coastline, with other individuals in the background and cliffs along the sea under a cloudy sky.
Exploring Air Ordinances
A young girl with glasses and a panda tank top enjoying a frozen treat at an ice cream shop.
Metallurgy
Travels by Land
Two children are screen printing a design onto fabric on a table, with one child helping the other to press the screen down. There are containers of ink and a fork on the table, and the classroom background includes shelves with supplies and a chalkboard.
Periodic T-Shirts
Children selling baked goods at a small outdoor stand in a park, decorated with a sign that reads "Taquitos Pequeños" and colorful menu on a white paper, with trees, grass, and other children in the background.
Taco Truck
Children observe a science experiment with yellow flowers in a beaker of liquid on a hot plate in a classroom.
Sun Explorations
A colorful collage featuring rainbow-colored stairs, a fist, a female gender symbol, and a quote about self-acceptance. The background includes pink, orange, and light green colors, and the artwork is signed "StarSky."
Time Machine through history
Children conducting a science experiment with a beaker of yellow liquid and flowers in a classroom.
Stuffy Playground and simple machines