FLEx Examples

Students produced a lip sync show for their school community and as a fundraiser for a local academy.

Students use LA skills in an ongoing relationship with residents of an assisted living facility.

Grade 3 students manage a classroom coffee shop and share coffee with community helpers.

Students visited a local Catholic cathedral to learn more about Holy Week practices, then chose a spiritual habit to practice throughout that week.

Students were able to practice Spanish by speaking and writing with students their age in Ecuador and Argentina.

As we engage the themes of the book and discern their meaning within God’s story, we look for ways that we can live “The Good Life” in our own community by partnering with families in our community.

In this unit, students explore the role of elders and oral stories in preserving and transmitting culture, strengthening relationships in the process.

In a unit on fictional narrative writing, fourth graders at Bellevue Christian School collaborated to write and illustrate their own story that went on to reach a large audience.

2nd grade students were invited to use their writing skills to promote local restaurants that could use the extra encouragement during the trials of Covid-19.

Students read about animal extinction and looked for ways that they could help restore creation. They looked for opportunities in and out of school.

Students wrote letters of encouragement to other middle school students in their community who were not able to meet in person. These letters not only expressed empathy and encouragement regarding distance learning but also provided some advice and encouragement about transitioning from elementary.

Helping families create a home liturgy of word and table, growing together in their love of the Bible, and learning how to communicate honestly with one another their insights and perspectives.

Future 8th graders write encouragement cards and create plans for welcoming next year's 7th graders.

8th grade science/English students collaborate with 6th grade English students to create a podcast that encourages and invites 5th graders into middle school.

Students were empowered to write a biography and create a graphic design that shows the impact their Unsung Hero has had on others.

After reading some stories about the power of teamwork, 5th grade students brainstormed things they could do in the school and broader community together. Students worked with school groundskeepers to improve their campus and reflected Christ by being servant hearted.

Visual arts students visited band rehearsals and sought mutual inspiration from the process of creating something beautiful. Visual artwork inspired by the collaboration was featured on the evening of a fine arts musical performance.

Students learn about the gift of hearing and advocate for those with hearing impairments.

Students grow a sunflower to deliver with a letter and a decorated pot to individuals that they see as "needing sunshine" in their community.

In order to help cut down on their school’s contribution to and funding of unsustainable food systems like the costs of transporting produce, they planted potatoes for use in the school lunchroom, and will work to maintain this garden plot as well as many others planted by other classes.

For the final FLEx project in an honors American History class, my students and I designed a magazine focusing on the throughline of justice seeking in America’s past and present with a special focus on the Civil Rights Movement.

Spanish students learning informal commands designed PSA posters for area business to inform customers about Covid-related protocols.

Students design, create, and paint pinch pots and then share them with people in their lives that need some encouragement.

Students worked to plant and irrigate a barren strip of land that allowed an non-profit organization to provide food for a community in need.

Students studied the life of David as a poet and then created poetry to gift to health care and utility workers.

The students spent time thinking about a faculty/staff member that had impacted them, selected a form of poetry to use, and then wrote a poem meant to bless them. These were given to the staff either by the student directly, or anonymously.

As first graders learned about plants in science and from an area expert, they decided to plant a community garden where the vegetables raised could be shared with a local food pantry

Grade 8 students design and paint handicap accessible picnic tables.

Opinion writing coincides with appreciating the service of others.

Students met a food pantry need by using their science knowledge to create laundry soap.

7th grade students studying Paul's missionary journeys looked for modern-day "Pauls" and wrote letters of encouragement to these people. They also researched missionaries supported by their churches and created a public display to broaden their local communities awareness of missionaries.

Students created inspirational documents to give daily encouragement to a peer in a health crisis.

3rd graders learned about leadership and discovered their own leadership gifts. They then expressed appreciation for leaders in their lives through thank you letters.

Students created a school newspaper to connect with stakeholders that were not able to be on campus during COVID.

Students were asked to produce a short instructional video intended to benefit an intended audience of other students who need help with the difficulties of the course, or who need some encouragement amidst the challenges of the course.

By examining the chemical ingredients of everyday products that they used, students were invited to identify and advocate for more natural and sustainable products.

After a local student was killed in a traffic accident, students wrote a book to share with her family on Ruby's birthday.

Students learned about plants and the plant life cycle and they decorated pots and plants beautiful plants to share with people in their lives who had helped them to grow in their love for God and each other.

Furniture is donated after students write letters.

Students write a persuasive essay about a topic they care about, and then practice engaging with other people in a loving, respectful way on that topic.

An unusually harsh Texas winter storm had hurt some of God’s creatures — the birds — and our 1st graders desired to respond by helping the healing process. We used our Creation Investigator skills as we learned about the problem, what we were called to do by God, and then developed solutions.

Students were asked to spend time sharing/discussing with their parents what they had been thinking about in Bible class, in hopes of developing a habit of family connection over the Bible and what it means to them.

Students held a carwash to raise money for those most impacted by Covid and hunger. Students wrote reflections and acrostic poems about their experience.

Students used interviews and masks to empathize with medical workers.

8th grade PE students designed and implemented PE lessons for a neighboring elementary school that had no K-3 PE specialist. Student had to think creatively since their interactions had to be virtual because of Covid 19.

Students created safe spaces around their school for students to practice restoring relationships.

Students were stretched and moved out of their comfort zones by engaging in meaningful conversations with people they wouldn't normally engage with as they completed an Emmaus Road walk.

Students made bird seed feeders and blessing tags to deliver to selected community members.

Students create care packages and write letters to "Town Village" residents.

After reading a novel, Restart, students looked for ways to reduce bullying and increase inclusion. They created Acts of Kindness bingo cards that they utilized to practice kindness among their peers.

Students learned about how to care for animals in their habitats; then shared that knowledge with younger students

Student athletes are nurtured to carry out the school's mission and vision in their sport.

Elementary students interview and create biographies of members in a nursing home and retired individuals.

Students in the Spanish Immersion Reading Support program spread hope and encouragement by creating Christmas cards for those in extra love and prayers.

Kindergarteners encourage others with kindness through the creation of Valentine cards, cookies, and get well soon cards.

Students sorted, created patterns, and ultimately counted by 10s. They counted and donated 100 cans of soup to the local food bank on the 100th day of school.

Kindergarten students increase the health of their school's wooded area by picking up trash and planting a tree.

Students build community through songs, stories, play, and conversation with senior citizens.

Science students work towards habitat restoration by removing invasive species around the school campus.

Students use the power of photography to take beautiful and meaningful portraits. The portraits themselves tell a story and represent something beautiful but are also accompanied by a written story.