Grade Level
Middle
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Applewild’s Seed to Lunch Teaching Garden – It’s What’s “Growing” On Campus!
Applewild’s seed to lunch program’s teaching garden is a hot spot of campus activity. Students design the garden from the “floor” up. They research flowering plants to attract pollinators, design and build bird houses, and plan how to maintain the garden over the summer months. Students turn the warm soil and using methods taught in […]
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Applewild Jazz Band Delights Visitors at Fitchburg Art Museum
Visitors to Fitchburg Art Museum’s Art in Bloom exhibit opening on May 1st, couldn’t help but smile. They were greeted with a spontaneous “pop-up” concert by the eighth grade members of Applewild’s Jazz Band. After a gathering drum beat, members of the Jazz Band began to fill the Simonds Building lobby. Adding one, two, or […]
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Inly School Has Fun With Creativity Cans
Inly School, an independent Montessori school on Boston’s South Shore, hosted a Creativity Can event. All K–8 students gathered in the Meehan Family Artsbarn for one hour to make creatures using Faber-Castell Creativity Cans. It was a joy to see what each student came up with. All of the creatures were totally unique. But the […]
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Inly School 8th Graders Spend Two Weeks at Innovation Lab
Each spring, eighth graders from Inly Middle School participate in NuVu, a full-time magnet innovation studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to this partnership, NuVu worked exclusively with high schools. NuVu’s founder and Chief Excitement Officer is Saeed Arida. When asked about the partnership with Inly, Arida said, “We are excited to be working with Inly […]
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Greens Farms Academy’s New Seed to Table Program
Garden-based education at Greens Farms Academy has recently expanded through its Seed to Table program. The program is now fully integrated into the Lower School curriculum and is steadily trickling up to the Middle and Upper Schools. Seed to Table inspires students to develop meaningful connections with the world around them through explorations in the […]
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Wyoming Seminary STEM School marks two successful years
In two short years, Wyoming Seminary’s STEM School has had a transformative impact on Sem’s students, faculty, parents and the local community. New programs such as the STEM Lecture series, the STEM Foundations course for freshmen, STEM-tastic Saturdays at the Lower School, and STEM Science Nights at both Lower and Upper Schools are a only […]
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Hathaway Brown campers perform Random Acts of Kindness in downtown Cleveland
Twenty-one girls from Hathaway Brown’s Leading for Life outdoor adventure and leadership camp headed to downtown Cleveland for their second Random Acts of Kindness Day on Wednesday, July 16. After enjoying the variety of foods offered by the numerous Food Trucks at Walnut Wednesday, the girls treated the crowd to a Flash Mob dance to […]
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Life-shaping Experiences
Experiential learning is a daily part of an EDS education. From a life-shaping Outward Bound experience to a Science/Spanish trip to Costa Rica – Episcopal Day School is committed to preparing students for learning and for life.
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Developing Independent Learners Through the SOLE Project
As a culminating experience in our Middle School, eighth grade students accomplish a Self-Organized-Learning-Environment (SOLE) Project. Inspired by Sugatra Mitra’s “School in the Cloud” Ted talk and the tenets of experiential learning, the SOLE Project provides students the opportunity to design and accomplish a project of their choosing and then present the product of their […]
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Poly Prep’s Women’s Innovation Symposium in Engineering
Poly Prep hosted its third annual Women’s Innovation Symposium in Engineering (W.I.S.E.) for middle and upper school girls to learn about the field of engineering in workshops presented by women engineers and scientists on March 9. The event is open for free to all 7th through 12th grade female students in the New York City […]
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Middle School Students Use New Shakespeare App
At Poly Prep, on the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, Gail Karpf’s 7th grade English class was newly into the study of the Bard’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, using 21st-century technology. They were studying the 16th-century comedy using a new Shakespeare app on their iPads. Last year, Headmaster David B. Harman P’04, ‘06 introduced […]
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A generation of creative collaborators: Chicago Interim trip
In the spring during Westridge’s experiential Interim week, 39 Chamber Orchestra students were featured as the artists-in-residence at Baker Demonstration School, an independent coeducational elementary school in Wilmette, IL. The goal was for the two schools to work together to create original music compositions. Leo Kitajima, Westridge Middle and Upper School orchestra teacher, conceptualized the […]