Grade Level
Lower
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Rectangles in a Mark Rothko
Pre-Kindergarteners enrolled in the Early Childhood Program at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a mathematics activity using the visual arts as a lens. The children learned about the abstract expressionist, Mark Rothko (1903 – 1970), and used his colorful canvasses as a springboard to discussing attributes of rectangles. […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Seeing Triangles in Op Art
Pre-Kindergarteners enrolled in the Early Childhood Program at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a mathematics activity using the visual arts as a lens. The children learned about the British Optical (“Op”) artist, Bridget Riley, (1931 – present), and used her “Turquoise Cerise Olive Interlacing Triangle” as a springboard […]
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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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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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Inspiring Life-Long Learners, Big and Small
Learning isn’t just for the little ones at The Wilson School. Wilson’s faculty and trustees jumped right into their own learning this academic year with a special evening session on the first night of school with Professor Edward Hess, author of “Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization.” In his presentation […]
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Thinking Outside The Box
Riverdale Country School is constructing a new classroom building on its Lower School campus so students will be “camping out” in temporary units this year. Temporary but not ordinary. Using creative design and input from the students, Riverdale has turned the Learning Complex into a fun and funny place to learn. The students may never […]
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New “Innovation Station” Will Put Creative Thinking into Action
This fall, students will return to Ranney School, an Age 3-Grade 12 independent school in Tinton Falls, with a physical space to execute their most innovative and creative ideas. The new “Innovation Station” is modeled after the “Dream Labs,” “Fab Labs,” and “MakerSpaces” that have been popping up across the country since 2005 as part […]
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Pre-Schoolers, Teachers Collaborate in Design Thinking
Emily is wide-eyed with concentration as she skillfully handles an electric screwdriver. There’s a squeal of delight when Olivia completes a circuit. There are the inevitable groans from the class as a tall tower collapses and needs to be built yet again. These are the everyday sights and sounds of excited preschoolers in McGehee School’s […]
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Green Acres School Certified as a Maryland Green School
On April 30, the Maryland Association of Environmental and Outdoor Education (MAEOE) announced Green Acres School’s certification as a 2015 Maryland Green School. The award is the culmination of two years of demonstrating and documenting a continuous effort to integrate sustainable environmental management practices, environmental education curriculum, professional development opportunities, and community engagement into the […]