Grade Level
Middle
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Art Structures
Students in the Middle School Art + Innovation program at Taipei American School use the engineering design process whilst experimenting with different media and materials to foster their creativity and bring their ideas to life. This video features one such project created by Henri a Grade 6 student. Henri used Sketch Up and a Makerbot […]
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Trinity Students Raise Over $3,000 to Send Anti-Malarial Bed Nets to Africa!
Trinity Episcopal School students recently concluded a fundraising drive to send protective anti-malarial bed nets to countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Students raised a grand total of $3,124.52, which is equal to 260 nets that will be donated to people living in African countries at high risk of malaria. The money will be donated to Nets […]
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Analyzing Data, Maximizing Power: Science in the Real World
At Kentucky Country Day School, eighth graders are designing solar batteries, writing disaster response plans for cities around the world, and disassembling electronics to evaluate their environmental impact. These hands-on units are part of their Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences (E3S) curriculum, which focuses on projects that put learning in a real world context. In […]
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Coding For All Ages: Nashoba Brooks Undertakes School-wide Coding Initiative
In late December, 2014, the entirety of Nashoba Brooks School united in pursuit of a common goal: coding. Participating in the global movement Hour of Code, students in Preschool through Grade 8 devoted a full morning to tackling a variety of coding projects. In every subject, students will encounter setbacks; in coding, where a seemingly […]
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Women of Courage Panel in Honor of Rosa Parks
At JMSG, Girls in Government, Leadership, and Service (GGLS) is a group of 6th, 7th, and 8th grade girls who voluntarily meet before school one day a week. Not only do the girls prepare for this event, but, in addition, over the past few years, they have studied the gender disparity of wages in the […]
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Middle School Students “Go Green” at Innovative Event
They came with curiosity and left as leaders! More than 240 students from 11 middle schools in Virginia, D.C., and Maryland joined forces at St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School (Alexandria, Va.) for the seventh-annual Students for Sustainability (S4S) Conference on January 26. It was a day of hands-on education, brainstorming, and bonding to make […]
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Sound of nature – An interactive art installation by grade 6 students.
” We wanted to make an artwork that makes people excited about nature.” – Kristina and Ryan. Students in the Middle School Art + Innovation program at Taipei American School use the engineering design process whilst experimenting with different media and materials to foster their creativity and bring their ideas to life. This video features […]
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Open Window School Sixth Grader is the Junior Winner in the Future Engineers 3D Printing in Space Challenge
Students in Innovation & Tech Lab Director Adrienne Gifford’s sixth grade tech class at Open Window School have been learning 3D modeling and printing this year. Ms. Gifford encouraged her students to enter a design into the Future Engineers 3D Printing in Space Challenge. Earlier this year, NASA launched it’s first-ever Zero-G 3D Printer to […]
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Park School & PSite: Rethinking Time and Learning
Imagine the impact on your child if he or she were given an authentic, real-world problem to tackle with one week of uninterrupted school time collaborating with peers and learning from outside experts. These are the goals Park School’s Institute for Transformative Education (PSite) strives to reach, under the leadership of Kimberly Formisano and Elaine […]
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From struggling to excelling-TCS students make the grade!
Since most teens with learning differences find school difficult and unrewarding, but are attracted to the wages and activity offered in the working world, The Cottage School class day is modeled as if it were a job. Each student enrolls as if they are being hired. They follow a business casual dress code and issued […]
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Kent Place School Community Members Wear Red to Spread Awareness About Heart Disease and Stroke
On Friday, February 6, the Kent Place School community wore the color red in honor of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women National Wear Red Day®. The Day, in its twelfth year, was created to raise awareness about heart disease and stroke, the No. 1 and No. 5 killers of women. According to […]
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Family Service Days at Aspen Academy
Part of Aspen Academy’s mission is to cultivate excellence in community strength and service. Service may meet a tangible need, or it may meet a need of the spirit. In January, Aspen Academy families were given the opportunity to do both. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service is the only federal holiday observed […]