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Middle School Games Encourage Responsibility, Collaboration
Inspired by award-winning game designer Jane McGonigal’s TED Talk, middle schoolers at United Friends School (UFS) in Quakertown, PA, invented their own series of games they hoped would create new habits and foster real collaboration among players—ideas that could transfer into the real world. “Games for Social Change” began with students examining, playing, and writing […]
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Inquiry-Based Collaborations Illuminate Discovery Day
Before they could present their projects on Discovery Day, lower school students at Marburn Academy, a K-12 college preparatory school for dyslexic and ADHD students in Columbus, Ohio, used an inquiry-based approach to gather information on their topics, and then constructed answers to some essential questions. The Westward Wagons group had to demonstrate the forces […]
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First Grade Pulley Systems Harken Back to Ancient Times
As first graders at St. Mary’s School in Aliso Viejo, CA, engineered their own pulley systems—an interactive STEM science lab project—they were also thinking about how catapults were used in the Trojan War. During their International Baccalaureate (IB) studies of Ancient Greece and Rome, they’d learned that a catapult is a lever, and gained the […]
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Visiting Scholar Challenges Students to See From a New Creative Lens
The All Saints’ Episcopal School Tad Bird Honors College presented Sedrick Huckaby, a Fort Worth native and Guggenheim Fellow, as part of the Visiting Scholar Series. For two weeks, Huckaby worked with All Saints’ students grades PK-12, on art and the creative process. Throughout his visit, 10 original works of Huckaby’s art were hung in […]
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Bosque Students Making an Environmental Splash
When Mirabelle, a senior at Bosque School in Albuquerque, slipped and fell into the ice-lined Rio Grande River last December, her safety gear protected her; she was fine. She was actually more focused on the samples she’d been scooping up, which later tested positive for the chemical toluene. Those results were added to the data […]
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Second Grade Project Is “Out of This World”
If you’re thinking of taking a tour of our solar system, consider picking up a travel brochure from second graders at Montgomery School in Chester Springs, PA. In Julie Dattilo’s science class, you’ll find out why Venus is the ultimate honeymoon destination; how to lose weight on the Winter Mercury Tour (gravity gets the credit); […]
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Chesapeake Bay Fellows Intend to Make a Difference
Two juniors at Norfolk Academy are writing and illustrating a children’s book, “No More Mermaids,” depicting long-time problems in the Chesapeake Bay. Along with 15 other classmates in grades 9-11, they’re Chesapeake Bay Fellows, involved in a nascent four-year, multidisciplinary and experiential course of study offered through the school’s Center for Civic and Global Leadership. […]
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Farming is All in a School Day’s Work for Putney Students
At The Putney School in Vermont, there’s really no such thing as “extra-curricular.” The goal of the 9-12 coed boarding school is to provide students with an experiential education that includes both independence and responsibility. All activities—physical and intellectual, indoors and out—are part of the curriculum. To graduate, students must satisfy six work distribution requirements […]
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The Middle Ages in Middle School
For sixth graders at the Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI) in New York City, the annual spring Medieval Pageant is an exciting and creative opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of the Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East to other middle school students, family, and friends. The Pageant transforms […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Exploring M.C. Escher’s Tantalizing Tessellations
Fifth graders at All Saints’ Episcopal School recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a hands-on geometry exploration using the visual arts as a lens. In order to make the teaching and learning of transformations more engaging and meaningful to students, the fifth grade mathematics teacher introduced students to the work of the Dutch […]
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Girls in Government, Leadership, and Service at JMSG
Julia Morgan School for Girls’ Girls in Government, Leadership, and Service (GGLS) is a group of students who meet one morning a week to learn more about government, leadership, current issues, and how to effectuate change. Led by Head of School Sandra Luna, the mission of GGLS is to: – Provide opportunities to girls to […]
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Put on Your Math Goggles! Counting with Georges Seurat
Pre-K children enrolled in All Saints’ Episcopal School’s Early Childhood Program recently donned their math goggles and engaged in a counting activity using the visual arts as a lens. The children learned about and viewed several images of the artwork of Georges Seurat, the French pointillist painter known for his “dotted” artwork. The children marveled […]