Chattanooga School for the Liberal Arts, Spring 2013   Tags: chattanooga school for the liberal arts, csla, houck, jennings  

1.     Students will create a magazine on a topic.  Each article about the topic must relate to a subject studied at CSLA.

2.     Students will use questions to guide their research.

The Exit Project is an interdisciplinary, inquiry-based, research project on an issue-related topic of student choice.  It is considered a Paideia Coached Project in that the student has choice, builds on prior knowledge, completes relevant and challenging tasks, learns throughout the process, and completes evaluations of the project components.

Many individual lessons are learned throughout the nine-month project:

• forming essential questions
• researching
• note-taking
• finding and using reputable websites
• differentiating and creating expository and persuasive samples
• avoiding all forms of plagiarism
• planning, composing, evaluating, revising, and editing articles for the magazine
• interviewing
• creating visuals such a collage, artwork, poetry, timelines
• conducting surveys
• statistical data analysis
• understanding and creating graphs using Microsoft Office Excel
• creating political cartoons
• conducting a science experiment
• editorial writing
• writing reviews of movies, books, or other published items
• translating an article into French or Spanish
• incorporating all disciplines of study
• designing a cover for publication
• publishing the completed professional journal

From:  Abstract - The Exit Project, by Mrs. Jane Varnell

• Critical Thinking
• Decision Making
• Evaluate
• Analyze
• Synthesize
• Judgments