Field Experiences
Assessing Human Needs at Lincoln Park Community Services
Unit I of SDGs & You is entitled Access, and it asks students to investigate the first, second, and fourth Sustainable Development Goals: No Poverty, No Hunger, and Quality Education (respectively). As a part of their investigation, students prepared and delivered meals to Lincoln Park Community Service. Students were responsible for planning bagged 45 people while…
Read MoreExploring the Chicago River with Urban Rivers
First-year students embarked on their first off-campus Field Experience of their GCE career, and it was definitely one for the books. The students are investigating the guiding question, “How is our understanding of water reflected in our interactions with it?” in their STEAM course, Water. Phil from Urban Rivers talked about their efforts to restore…
Read MoreClosing the Loop at Plant Chicago
First-year students in the Food For Thought and Food class embarked on a cross-curricular Field Experience to Plant Chicago. Education Manager, Rock Evans gave the students a tour of the work done at Plant Chicago, which furthered their investigations of food origins, distribution, and economies. On the STEAM side, students got a deep understanding of…
Read MoreTasting coffee’s origins with Metropolis Coffee!
The Food For Thought course re-directs our investigations from the interior of the self back into the world that formed our selves, with particular focus on the way our food — how we find it, grow it, nurture it, store it, and distribute it — has given rise to the structures of the world most…
Read MoreDiscovering Found Object Puppetry with Rough House Theater
Throughout history and around the world, humans have used puppets to pass down stories, share cultural practices, and revolt against censorship. A Show of Hands is a course in which students explore how they can use puppetry to communicate about issues that are important to they. They experiment with constructing and manipulating different types of puppets,…
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