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Eighth Graders Use Beebots to Explore Vectors in Physical Science
Eighth Graders recently used Beebots programmable robots to explore vectors in physical science class. The teams of students were given a grid mat, a Beebot, compass rose direction cards, a meter stick, and a recording sheet. They were then given time to explore by programming the Beebot to follow the paths and record the distance […]
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BlendEd Program Fosters Self-Motivated Education
Juniors and seniors at Marin Academy have a unique opportunity to take classes with peers and teachers from their own and four other Bay Area schools — The Athenian School, The College Preparatory School, Lick-Wilmerding High School, and The Urban School — in a partnership that combines face-to-face instruction with online learning. The Bay Area […]
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Students Consider “What is Right?” through Project Based Learning
Project Based Learning (PBL) is a cornerstone of a Foothills School education; it lets students learn collaboratively by asking questions that enhance their understanding of a subject. Last year, fifth and sixth graders spent a semester focusing on one driving question, “What is Right?” Activities included immersing themselves in the history of street art — […]
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Open Window School Student Experiment to Fly to the International Space Station
This fall students at Open Window School have their heads in the clouds, actually far above the clouds. They are working in teams on proposals for microgravity experiments to be conducted by astronauts 250 miles above sea level on the International Space Station (ISS). One of these student-designed experiments will be among 22 selected from […]
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Exploring the Library with Augmented Reality
“It’s like magic!” “How’d they do that?!” These are the excited voices of Lower School students as they took a creative tour of our newly updated library in September. We moved away from a monotonous, information-overload orientation to a more engaging experience that had students moving around the library space on their own. We created […]
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Acceleration Comes to Light in Dunn School’s Physics Class
At Dunn School in Los Olivos, California, juniors and seniors saw free-fall in a whole new way, thanks to a newly-designed physics course. Students approximated free-fall by attaching a small strobe light to a heavy ball (to minimize the effects of air resistance); then they photographed the strobe light as it fell. They took this […]
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Lost In The Game: A Musical Story of Relationships, Sex and Gender Politics
Durham Academy a cappella group XIV Hours takes on hookup culture, relationships and respect as reflected in pop culture and music. Their music video, in three acts, breaks down some of the sexist lyrics and themes that teens navigate every day. The students’ powerful, poignant message is also inspiring, as they close emphasizing a sense […]
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Finding success through failure
In partnership with the World Pediatric Project and VCU, a group of eleventh-grade students at The Steward School (an independent JK-12 school located in Richmond, Virginia) was given the chance for a hands-on project that explored independent research, design, systems thinking and innovative technologies during the spring of 2015. The WPP purchased blood pressure monitors […]
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Respect Assembly at Green Acres School
At today’s Lower School Assembly, students explored what it means to respect others, how to treat each other well, and how kindness begets more kindness. They closed with a song about peace—relying upon lyrics in Hebrew, Arabic, and English!
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Children Share their Wish for the World
As children returned to Ranney School (Tinton Falls, NJ) this September, they had an opportunity to share their wishes for the world–in their words–on a large board exhibited in the school hallway.
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Auroral Splendor – Teachable Moments
Like most schools, Conserve School teachers and staff are always alert for “Teachable Moments”. This year solar activity has set the stage for some great ones. Here is a description of one such moment from Conserve School’s Head of School, Stefan Anderson. “This past Labor Day evening Conserve School students and staff were fortunate to […]
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STEAM Project Lets Middle School Girls Design Wearable Technology
At Sacred Heart Greenwich, art and design are seen as essential vehicles for promoting innovation through creativity. Last spring, knowing that the field of electronic textiles—where art and technology intersect—strongly appeals to middle school girls, teachers asked students in these grade levels to imagine the future of wearable technologies and the concept of “smart” clothing. […]