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[quote=Anonymous]We don’t have a kid in upper grades, but have been in expeditionary learning for several years, and this may be helpful to you: A misconception I realize now that I had coming in, about every expeditionary school I toured - 2R, Mundo Verde, and Capital City - was that expeditions were worked into *every* aspect of the curriculum. Like I thought that if the expedition was about garbage, then pretty much most math and the language arts worked on during in that expedition period would be tied in to the theme somehow.

And at least at 2R, I don’t feel like that’s the case. The expeditions are like a big project they’re working on, and form the core of either the science or social studies curriculum in that semester, and usually tie into their art projects, but if kids are learning to read, or doing math, they’re still doing that in ways that seem both “typical” and varied to me, compared to any other school. So I don’t feel like there’s anything missing from the curriculum – kids are still learning how to read and do math, through a variety of strategies and with totally unrelated books and problems to the current expedition.

There is an overall approach that emphasizes hands-on, problem based learning; expeditions are a part of that, but that doesn’t mean that every area is tied to one expedition.

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