Craig Butz :: Teaching Portfolio

Student Projects

Engaging

Prediction Book and Time Capsule (Futures Past and Present)
Students select artifacts from the present, research and write predictions for the future, and seal it all in a locker that will not be opened until they are 50 years old

Student directed

Research in the Community
Students choose issues they are interested in, define meaningful questions and use text-based and field research techniques to gather information to develop answers to present to the community

Innovative

Utopian Classroom (Utopia/Dystopia)
With the usual rules suspended, students work together to create a system to make decisions, run the classroom, and decide what to learn about utopian and dystopian literature

Real world

City Planning
Students come to understand real world social issues and their solutions by planning the redevelopment of Treasure Island

Ambitious

Weather Balloon (Project Ikaros Intersession and Atmospheric Science Immersive)
Students refine their understanding of the atmosphere by building, launching, tracking, and recovering a camera-equipped weather balloons to and from "near space"