“Interdisciplinary academics should be guided at [adolescence] to encourage wonder and hopefulness, and deep thinking. Students learn in this context to question and query. They are given the structure and tools to research, investigate, and mediate. They are taught to approach issues at hand as problems to be solved and are taught the tools to solve them. Discussions with peers, guided by a skillful seminar facilitator, can create a lively and provocative conversation that can give students a healthy sense of how to challenge and support diverse opinions and ideas.” - Marta Donahoe

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During our unit on water, students studied the crisis that has occurred over the past decade in Flint, Michigan. In an effort to try and prevent a similar tragedy from happening elsewhere in the United States, students researched to determine the causes of the crisis:

Also during our unit on water, students studied the alarming loss of water from the Colorado River over recent decades and proposed varying steps that could be taken to mitigate the problem and also guide future policy for the Colorado River and other important water sources: