PRESENTATION
BIOGRAPHY
Name: Olivia Birdsall
Project Category: Curriculum Development Project
Project Description: PBL student unit focusing on how students could improve the quality of the fields by addressing drainage and irrigation systems while also conserving water and costs
Teaching Subject: Mathematics
MICROGRANT PROJECT ABSTRACT
Issues addressed: Interdisciplinary PBL
Topic: Interdisciplinary Middle School PBL – Irrigation and Drainage Systems
Rationale: Our school pushed for student teams to implement an interdisciplinary PBL. My team created a PBL to support the athletic grounds crew design new environmentally friendly and cost-effective irrigation and drainage system for our school’s athletic fields. Students would present to district grounds crew, turf biologists, and landscape engineers.
CLASSROOM PROFILE
- Students taught: 75
- Student demographics: 38.5% Hispanic, 33% White, 22% Black, 5.4% Multiracial, and 1% Asian
SCHOOL PROFILE
- Large school
- Urban
- Traditional public school
- Enrolled students: 1,256
- Free/reduced lunch eligible: 81.5%
- Demographics: 38.5% Hispanic, 33% White, 22% Black, 5.4% Multiracial, and 1% Asian