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Applied Physics and Design–Toboggan Making
Teachers George Tahan and Tyson Trautz are team teaching a course in Conceptual Physics that features a one-day-a-week session in Applied Physics and Design during which the students make toboggans. Boys design their toboggans using CAD (Computer Aided Design) software, and go over to the wood shop to build them.
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Overlake Students Taking Mandarin Make Music Video
Overlake Students taking Mandarin 5 took it upon themselves to make a music video. The students re-worked the song “Welcome to Beijing” to “Welcome to Overlake,” and shot the video on our beautiful campus. There are no subtitles on the video, but you can enjoy the lyrics below: Overlake 欢迎你 Welcome to Overlake by中文五班 By […]
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Old Trail School Students Join Worldwide Movement to get 100 Million+ Students to Code
Old Trail School students, teachers and parents participated with students across the globe in the Hour of Code project in December. This event was held in conjunction with Computer Science Week and was sponsored by Tynker.com, Code.org and a variety of other websites and apps during the month of December. The Hour of Code is […]
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How Exchanges Become Inspiration
In 2010, Flintridge Preparatory School’s Nicaragua Initiative was envisioned as a typical summer exchange program, with five Spanish students travelling to Managua. The passionate involvement of one participant — rising senior Naomi Hatanaka — provided inspiration that continues today, says Spanish teacher Manuel Nuñez, who oversees the program. “I didn’t have an awareness of what […]
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Inspiring International Discussion on Educational Change
Recently, Julia Morgan School for Girls Head of School Sandra Luna was honored to be a keynote speaker at the International Symposium on the Quality of Girls’ Education and Girls’ Rights to Education in Zhenjiang, China. Seventy educators and researchers, primarily from China, but also from Russia, the UK, Mauritius, Taiwan, and Hong Kong were […]
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Juniors Develop Long-Term Project Encompassing Coding, Strategy, and Collaboration
Each year, students in Deb Goudy’s Advanced Honors Computer Science class are challenged to tackle a long-term project that encompasses coding, strategy, and collaboration. “Because we’re all interested in science, we wanted to create something to help teach other students,” Pedro Rivera ’16 explained. “Our project aims to improve the experience for those taking Biology […]
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“Invention Convention” Sparks Ideas of New Safety Device, Sporting Equipment, and Solar-Powered Video Game System
After several weeks spent studying some of the world’s most influential inventors, students capitalized on their creative-thinking and problem-solving skills to develop their own devices for the second annual Invention Convention. Be it a piece of sports equipment, like the Lacrosse Boss or a child-proof airbag for cars, the student pairings exceed expectations with their […]
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Imagining a Perfect World
As a follow up to one of their summer reading books, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Sixth grade students at Montgomery School in Chester Springs, PA, imagine creating their own utopian community, as they complete ten writing assignments. The students write paragraphs explaining community’s name; the symbolism of the motto and seal they’ve created; and […]
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Colorado Academy’s Lower School Family Night STEAMs Ahead
The Lower School Family STEAM Night, on Jan. 14 from 5:30-7:45 p.m., is the perfect opportunity for parents to engage in intriguing, hands-on activities with their children. With the inclusion of art and design, the “A” in this acronym acknowledges the key role that creativity, imagination, and innovation play in the STEM-related fields both in […]
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Beyond Charity: Students Forge Connections with City Neighborhoods
Students at San Francisco University High School are constantly challenged to investigate their potential for enacting change, including the school’s Community Engagement Program, which connects student learning, social responsibility, and meaningful service. The Neighborhood Investigation unit helps familiarize ninth graders with a specific neighborhood’s history, community, and needs for the future before volunteer activities even […]
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6th Graders Build SeaPerch Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles
Amid a flurry of excitement and activity, the sixth graders built SeaPerch underwater remotely operated vehicles in science class this fall. They then put their work to the test by attempting to successfully run their vehicles through hoops, into crates, and all around a large pool. “When I told the students they would be building […]
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Sixth Graders Learn Biology, Archaeology, and History Through Mummification
Bent over chickens fresh from the market, sixth graders splashed rice wine vinegar and rubbed cinnamon on the pullets like Top Chefs vying for a stake in the next round. The setting was no TV kitchen, though, and Mrs. Porter’s students weren’t prepping these birds to serve for dinner. Science was happening, and the chicken […]