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Lower
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Kindergarten Students Create Certified Schoolyard Habitat
Old Trail School Kindergarten students have successfully created a Certified Schoolyard Habitat® through the National Wildlife Foundation’s Garden for Wildlife program. The National Wildlife Federation (NWF), America’s largest wildlife conservation and education organization. Old Trail School has joined with more than 5,000 schools nationwide that have transformed their schoolyards into thriving wildlife habitats that provide […]
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Students Reflect on the Elections
On the heels of a notable election, teachable moments surfaced as students at Woodland School—a school where approximately half of all families have at least one member of the family born outside the United States—pored over the results. Rather than dodging questions or feelings regarding the election, Woodland students were encouraged to ask questions, engage […]
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Grade 3 “Votes” on Election Day
Students in Grade 3 exercised their right to vote today during class. They presented their “id cards” to their teachers and received official ballots and took them to the “booths” in their classrooms. Each student voted on important choices including: 1. Favorite Cleveland Sports Team (Cavs) 2. Favorite Type of Pizza (Cheese) 3. Favorite Color […]
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Kent School Students Learn from Terrapins
For ten consecutive years, Kent School, serving Preschool through Grade 8 on the bank of the Chester River in historic Chestertown, MD has raised terrapins in the classroom in conjunction with several environmental organizations as part of the Lower School Bay Studies curriculum. The School’s most recent partnership with The National Aquarium in Baltimore began […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Circles in a Kandinsky
Third graders at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a measurement exploration using the visual arts as a lens. Students learned about the Russian painter, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), considered a pioneer of abstract modern art. Students used his “Several Circles” (1926) as a springboard to exploring characteristics of a […]
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Art and Service Collide at Kent School
Kent School is hosting an Empty Bowls event to benefit The Kent County Food Pantry. Empty Bowls is an international project to fight hunger, personalized by artists and art organizations on a community level. The event is open to the public and admission is free. Guests will enjoy a variety of homemade soups and breads […]
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ESD Third Graders Combine Statistics and Sports Cards in New Student-led Club
Three third-grade students from The Episcopal School of Dallas recently noticed an unmet need in their weekly Lower School life: a time and place for sports cards to be traded with classmates. So they approached Chelle Wabrek, Head of Lower School, and Megan Barnes, the new Lower School Librarian, with the idea of a Sports […]
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Old Trail School Middle School Students Create Civility Contracts During Election Season
Middle School students at Old Trail School have created Civility Contracts to practice and encourage respectful discussion and behavior during the weeks preceding the presidential election. Students agreed to listen to each other’s points of view, accept feedback if someone “crossed the line into a personal attack,” agree to disagree, and seek common ground. They […]
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Seven Hills students build a city filled with young entrepreneurs
Where can you find stores like Pie4U, Spin Land or Wild Rabbit Bookmarks? Box City, of course! Each fall our 5th graders embark on an entrepreneurial journey to design and start a small business. This unit of study provides students the opportunity to think critically and mathematically, problem-solve, apply creativity and develop an innovative idea. […]
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CARROLLWOOD DAY SCHOOL RECEIVES CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION COMMISSION
Carrollwood Day School received a Certificate of Appreciation on Thursday, October 20, 2016, from the Environmental Protection Commission for their innovative athletic field design. The CDS final site plan minimized wetland impacts by combining their athletic needs into one location and a Conservation Easement to SWFWMD will be recorded for 20.53 acres of nearby property […]
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Terrapin Research in Lower School Science
For ten consecutive years, Kent School, serving Preschool through Grade 8 on the bank of the Chester River in historic Chestertown, MD has raised terrapins in the classroom in conjunction with several environmental organizations as part of the Lower School Bay Studies curriculum. The School’s most recent partnership with The National Aquarium in Baltimore began […]
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STEAM in Action: From Garden to (Lab) Table to Canvas
This fall, third- and fourth-graders at Ranney School (Tinton Falls, NJ) had the opportunity to work in the Upper School chemistry lab alongside their older peers as part of a cross-disciplinary, cross-divisional STEAM project. First, they created dye harvested from flowers that they planted in the school’s community garden last spring. Students had a great […]