Grade Level
Middle
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“Our School, Our UMS-Wright”
At UMS-Wright, we continue to build a foundation for excellence through our devotion to advancing our students in Mind, Body, and Spirit! During the Spring of 2016, we released a series of four videos (Our School, Our Mind, Our Body and Our Spirit) that give viewers an inside glimpse into “Our School.”
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‘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.
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Middle School Entrepreneurs Take On The “Shark Tank”
Gladwyne Montessori’s 7th and 8th grade students capped off their yearlong Entrepreneurship studies with presentations to a carefully chosen panel of potential “investors” in Gladwyne Montessori’s Shark Tank. Following the style of the popular television show for entrepreneurs, students presented business plan proposals for the new companies they created going over profits, business goals, marketing […]
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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 […]
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Applied Physics and Design–Motorboat Project
Belmont Hill Form III students recently traveled to Concord River in Bedford, MA to test drive motorboats built in their Conceptual Physics class with Mr. Trautz and Mr. Tahan. The boats were an applied physics and design project, in which the boys designed the boats using CAD software and prototyped them using markup models. The […]
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Middle School Student Builds a Robotic Prosthetic Hand
Students in the Middle School Robotics club were asked to find to choose a real-world problem which they could solve through robotics. Jodie, an 8th grade student, created a robotic hand to help patients who may have lost their own hand.
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Seventh Grade Inventions Bring All Hands on Deck
While prosthetics technology has become highly developed in the past 10 years, the average cost for a prosthetic limb is anywhere from $5,000 – $50,000, and can be unaffordable to many people. Seventh graders at St. John’s Episcopal School, which uses a project-based, STEAM approach to learning to address real world problems in inventive ways, […]
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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 […]
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Dance Movement and Music Help Students Develop Personal, Environmental Connections
Baltimore Lab School students recently collaborated with dance therapist and architect Martha Raquel Herrera Muñoz and the non-profit PlanetArt Fund in a series of three-day workshops to create ocean awareness. Through dance movement and music, Muñoz, along with BLS faculty members Zac Lawhon and Jackie Lesh, helped students in grades 6-12 explore the concept of […]
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Walls to Bridges: Activism, Leadership, and Voice
“Walls turned sideways are bridges,” said Angela Davis in 1974. The 8th graders at LWGMS in Seattle engage in Walls to Bridges, a social justice curriculum that focuses on activism, leadership, and voice. Throughout their eighth grade year, students participate in monthly half-day workshops on issues like identity and ally-ship, as well as explorations of […]
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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 […]
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Middle Schoolers Educate Themselves, Others on the Importance of Activism
Social justice and activism are core components of Manhattan Country School’s curriculum. Each year, the school’s oldest students—the seventh and eighth graders—are charged with taking on a student-led activism project. This year, they chose to raise awareness about the Syrian refugee crisis and Islamophobia. Before they could persuade others, the students had to educate themselves […]