Grade Level
Lower
-
‘Iolani School’s Student-designed Quadcopters
‘Iolani School’s innovative project-based programming and curriculum were on display as seventh and eighth grade Robotics II students, in support of another Sullivan Center for Innovation and Leadership class, designed and built quadcopters to collect water samples from various locations within the neighboring Ala Wai Canal for biology students’ research projects.
-
Kent Place Student Experiment Chosen to be Carried Out on the International Space Station
Kent Place School and our partner, The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education is proud to announce the selection of a student-designed experiment that will be carried out on the International Space Station (ISS) next fall. Seventh graders, Isabella Diaz, Aya Mtume, Elizabeth Wyshner and fifth graders Olivia Adamczyk, Alexandra Anderson, Nora Lee […]
-
Empathy Meets Design-Thinking In The Maker Space
Riverdale Country School fifth graders became product designers this spring, making cardboard reading easels to meet the needs of their first-grade clients. The project was inspired by the Adaptive Design Association, a non-profit organization that builds custom furniture, equipment, toys, and other items for infants and children with special needs. Many of the items are […]
-
Coding in Preschool Enriches Literacy and Numeracy Development
At Wheeling Country Day School, we believe that our youngest students are more than capable of higher level thinking with the support of teachers and parents. We designed our early childhood STEM initiatives around engineering, technology, natural sciences and robotics. Our youngest preschoolers have fun learning to sequence and communicate through gross motor and electronic […]
-
M.A.D. Design Thinking: How Fourth Graders Made a Difference in Their Community
Fourth Graders at Kalamazoo Country Day School are M.A.D., or making a difference in their own community through Design Thinking. In January, KCDS fourth graders decided to use the Design Thinking process to reach out to their surrounding community. They chose to work with Adult Day Services at Oakland Center. The fourth graders began by […]
-
From Paper to Product
In a unique product design project, fifth-grade art students took their ideas to paper, manipulated them on the computer and then presented them in three dimensions. Not only did the students have to invent and name a product, but they also had to create it and package it.
-
Woodland School Capstone Inspires Students to Be Changemakers
Eighth grade students see their final year of middle school as a pivotal year in their educational career—and life—due to the Capstone project. Designed to be a hallmark of Woodland School, Capstone provides students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in research and action regarding issues of global significance. They step outside their comfort zone […]
-
Robots have taken over the library!
On a bright spring morning, a group of exuberant 1st graders gathered in our school library to cheer on their 5th grade buddies in their first ever “robot battle”—a contest that had student-created bots attempting to push one another out of a circular ring. This culminating event followed intensive work over several weeks during which […]
-
An Immersive Experience: Kindergarteners Dive Deep Into Their Hudson River’s Studies
Riverdale Country School kindergarteners know the Hudson River well. It flows alongside their campus in the Bronx. Last week, they explored what lies beneath the surface, and they created their own model of the river. In this video, the children explain how they did it.
-
Poetry Delights, Educates K-5 Students’ Hearts and Minds
Every spring, The Cooper School’s students embark on an eight-week study of poetry, with individual units of curriculum for each grade level. They analyze how poets use literary devices to convey meaning through their writing and explore how language, structure, and meaning intersect. Two poems by each student are published in the school’s annual award-winning […]
-
Interactive STEAM Fair Brings School Community Even Closer
This year, The Langley School hosted its first-ever STEAM Fair to celebrate its interdisciplinary, inquiry-based approach to learning and discovery through science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. In keeping with the school’s Arc of Development model, which underscores the ways in which the curriculum builds upon itself, the hands-on activity stations spanned all ages. More […]
-
Light Up Their Learning
This year we launched the opening of our new learning space, The Launch Pad. A space stocked with materials for creativity, design, and learning for our PreK through 4th grade students. As part of our work in this space, we encouraged our Kindergarten students to work with materials such as playdough, battery packs, and simple […]