Project Term
To learn about the 2008 Project Term trip to Germany, click here.
As a small school, we recognize that we cannot offer some of the electives that other schools can. Also, because of the Merit Curriculum, many larger schools feel the need to cut some very popular electives. To address this need, and to maintain our focus on the whole child, we have a period of intensive electives at the end of the school year. During this time students can choose from electives within four arenas: Travel, Arts, Humanities and Science, and Fitness and Health.
Although courses change from year to year, in the past students have traveled to Mt. Rushmore, Germany and the Appalachian Trail and we look forward to adding to our journeys. On campus, classes offer many opportunities for day trips as well: Art Exploration explores numerous museums, the photography students travel to parks and other settings that provide opportunities to spark their visual imagination, students who look into sports go to Tiger games, and fitness kids run at Kensington MetroPark, work out at the Howell Fitness Center and the Family Fitness Factory in Hamburg or do Yoga or Martial Arts in Brighton. Other students may be engaged in learning to cook like a chef, in exploring the history of science fiction, in getting an introduction to World Religions, Philosophy or Psychology, in creating Flash animation or in learning to sew or knit.
This is an exciting and academically engaging time of our school year when most schools are shutting down as kids lose their energy for the more formal classes. Our attendance during Project Term is exceptional and motivational as students really want to be here because there is no place else they can get this type of exposure or involvement.
Often Project Term classes require funding to complete their objectives. If you would like to donate time, services or funding to KWHS's Project Term, please contact Jim Perry at jperry@kwoods.org.