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Old Trail School Raises Funds for Nepal Orphans Home
The Old Trail School community came together to raise funds for victims of the April earthquakes in Nepal. This weekend the School raised $3,500+ at their Charity Rummage Sale to benefit Nepal Orphans Home. Items were donated by families and event volunteers included parents, teachers, administrators and students who were great ambassadors for the School […]
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Fifth Grade Science: Teaching Measurement Via NEAL
At Powhatan School we use an approach called Nature Enhanced Approach to Learning (NEAL). NEAL is a lens through which we can teach any or all components of our curriculum. We use it to bring our students outside into the natural world and to bring the natural world indoors to our students. Mrs. Kesler, a […]
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The Lindy 500 Kinetic Sculpture Race
This contest wasn’t just about speed, or style, or creativity, or engineering integrity, or wit. (Although those attributes earned points.) Riverdale’s Lindy 500 this year honored sustained effort, and the winning entry, The High-Top, earned its place through hours of out-of-class time on designing and building a fleeter sneaker. Named for the school’s Linda M. […]
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Wema 500: Mission Possible – Reading For A Cause
For the second year in a row, fifth graders at Rye Country Day School partnered with Wema Children’s Centre in Bukembe village, a rural community in western Kenya. During the 2013-14 academic year, students at RCDS and Wema read Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars and responded to a wide range of questions on a shared […]
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Laurel School Students Express Concern for Human Impact
Fifth Graders at Laurel School, in Shaker Heights, Ohio, learn about renewable energy sources and human impact on the environment through a project inspired by the work of Ansel Adams who used photography to capture the beauty he saw in nature and to share with the world his environmental concerns. Laurel Fifth Graders do the […]
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What is a Bottle Brick Bench and Why Build One?
During the past two academic years, RPCS students have been collecting plastic waste and plastic bottles in order to create and build a bottle brick bench – the second one to be built in the state of Maryland. Martha Barss, Environmental Education and Sustainability Coordinator, along with the 4th and 5th Grades have been directing […]
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Aspen Academy Presents . . . .
Aspen Academy students performed in two school-wide musicals this year. “The Sound of Music” was presented in the fall and just last week, “The Little Mermaid” opened. Our theatre program brings together actors ranging in age from second grade to eighth grade. The students offer support to each other and work together as a team […]
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Walker’s Ecology Students Share Importance of Honeybees with Second Graders
On Wednesday, May 15, sixth grade students in The Ethel Walker School’s Ecology class traveled to an elementary school in Simsbury, Connecticut to present to second grade students about the importance of honeybees. The Walker’s students discussed the process of pollination, threats to the honeybee population, and why honeybees should be protected. The students were […]
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The Geometry of Field Day
Being able to solve equations or do difficult geometry problems are very important skills to help students have success in future classes. But if we want students to really understand why we study mathematics, they need to see and understand how it is really used. This goes back to our school motto- we learn not […]
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The Ethel Walker School to Launch Nation’s First All-Girls Horizons Program
Individuals and organizations from the Hartford, Connecticut community recently gathered at the Hartford Public Library Kitchen Cafe for the inaugural Horizons Heroes Breakfast to learn more about Horizons at The Ethel Walker School, Hartford’s first Horizons program and the first all-girls Horizons site in the country. Horizons is a nationally recognized program with a 50-year […]
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Inquiry-Based Projects Lead to Real-Life Solutions
Research on learning and the brain has shown that an integrated, inter-disciplinary approach to independently motivated study promotes increased engagement. That’s why all K-8 students at Punahou School now participate in inquiry-based projects. Take the Kaho‘olawe project, during which a seventh grade team’s English, social studies, science, and math classes focused on Hawai’i’s smallest island, […]
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Concert Choir Helps Students Learn Through Living
The commitment cuts their hour-long lunch break by half, but each day 120 students in grades 8-12—more than 40 percent of the Indian Springs School (ISS) student body—file into their Rehearsal Room or Concert Hall. Many are already fine singers; others simply love music and want to participate in the school’s most popular and longest-running […]