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Put on Your Math Goggles! Exploring Symmetry in Robert Indiana’s LOVE art
Pre-K children enrolled in All Saints’ Episcopal School’s Early Childhood Program recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a symmetry activity using the visual arts as a lens. The children learned about and viewed several images of the artwork of Robert Indiana, the American artist most notably known for his “Love” paintings and sculptures. […]
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Middle School Students “Go Green” at Innovative Event
They came with curiosity and left as leaders! More than 240 students from 11 middle schools in Virginia, D.C., and Maryland joined forces at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School (Alexandria, Va.) for the seventh-annual Students for Sustainability (S4S) Conference on January 26. It was a day of hands-on education, brainstorming, and bonding to make […]
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Sound of nature – An interactive art installation by grade 6 students.
” We wanted to make an artwork that makes people excited about nature.” – Kristina and Ryan. Students in the Middle School Art + Innovation program at Taipei American School use the engineering design process whilst experimenting with different media and materials to foster their creativity and bring their ideas to life. This video features […]
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Learning the Power of Power
2nd and 3rd graders explored their own power to make change as part of a year-long unit on POWER at Aurora School. It all started with a science field trip to the San Francisco Bay shoreline. Students had a chance to run nets through the water to find living creatures. They looked at zooplankton and […]
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Open Window School Sixth Grader is the Junior Winner in the Future Engineers 3D Printing in Space Challenge
Students in Innovation & Tech Lab Director Adrienne Gifford’s sixth grade tech class at Open Window School have been learning 3D modeling and printing this year. Ms. Gifford encouraged her students to enter a design into the Future Engineers 3D Printing in Space Challenge. Earlier this year, NASA launched it’s first-ever Zero-G 3D Printer to […]
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Lower School Students Explore Day in the Life of a Meteorologist
Students in grades three and four at Gill St. Bernard’s School in Gladstone, N.J. were inspired to explore one of the many career opportunities available to them as adults during an assembly with meteorologist John Marshall. Marshall, a former anchor for both NBC and CBS, has presented school weather assemblies to students from as early […]
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Park School & PSite: Rethinking Time and Learning
Imagine the impact on your child if he or she were given an authentic, real-world problem to tackle with one week of uninterrupted school time collaborating with peers and learning from outside experts. These are the goals Park School’s Institute for Transformative Education (PSite) strives to reach, under the leadership of Kimberly Formisano and Elaine […]
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JCDS Held Successful STEM Fair
Students eager to share their latest scientific findings were plentiful at Jacksonville Country Day School’s STEM Fair, which took place on Thursday January 19th. The fair showcased many different engineering disciplines from environmental engineering to mechanical engineering and everything in between. The fair featured booths with engineering challenges and interactive displays the students could explore. […]
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Principia Students Connect Science and Art on Teton Trip
“It’s one thing to learn about nature in the classroom; it’s another to experience it. It makes much more of an impact on you!” That student comment hints at the enthusiasm and understanding generated by a recent interdisciplinary program, Creative Expressions in Nature. This weeklong experiential trip has been offered as an option for Principia […]
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From struggling to excelling-TCS students make the grade!
Since most teens with learning differences find school difficult and unrewarding, but are attracted to the wages and activity offered in the working world, The Cottage School class day is modeled as if it were a job. Each student enrolls as if they are being hired. They follow a business casual dress code and issued […]
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#startupMMT
Newly offered at Marymount this semester, Entrepreneurship 101 is an innovative, collaborative class for students in Classes X-XII. Led by three academic advisors, the course is designed to provide students with a supportive environment in which they can brainstorm, explore, and develop ideas for startups. According to Don Buckley, the class “dramatically mitigates the risks […]
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Understanding the Contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
SCDS primary grades faculty capitalized on time set aside for K-2 collaborative learning to introduce and reinforce students’ understanding of Dr. Martin Luther King’s contributions as a leader. Near the federal holiday vacation day, students were placed into mixed grade cohorts for a lesson that involved creating posters with words and pictures expressing his ideas […]