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Horsing Around at New Roads Elementary School
When Visual Arts department chair and instructor Marcia Moore set out to plan an elementary school art project for the arrival of the “Year of the Horse” this past Lunar New Year, she decided to go big. Students from Kindergarten to fifth grade would collaborate on the creation of a herd of large-scale horse sculptures […]
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Building Bridges to the Future: South Kent Students Learn to Carry Their Own Weight
As teachers, advisers, and classmates cheered them on in the gym, Fourth Form students — as tenth graders at the all-boys South Kent School in Connecticut are called — demonstrated their pre-engineering and pragmatic science skills in the Fourth Form Bridge Challenge. Using only specified materials such as popsicle sticks, the students — members of […]
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Students Aim for the Skies with Airplane Engineering Project
On any given afternoon, middle and upper school students gather in the Makers Studio to build The Athenian School’s newest airplane. The all-metal, two-person Van’s Aircraft RV-12 is one example of the school’s hands-on experiential learning opportunities. The plane is 20-feet long, has a wingspan of 27 feet, is powered by a 100hp Rotax engine, […]
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Dutchess Day School Celebrates Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds
The dining room at Dutchess Day School looked a bit different over four days in mid-January. The school’s chef had prepared an array of foods specifically chosen for their brain benefits, allowing students of all ages to sample such items as salmon roe, pomegranate juice, blueberries, and sardines. They were delighted; and when they sat […]
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Multiple Intelligences: A Unique Program Aimed At Students’ Strengths
Anyone visiting a classroom at New City School will most likely find groups of students working together—solving a complex problem, acting out an historical event, building models of a new insect species, or maybe even using percussion instruments to represent individual components of the digestive system. The school follows the principles of Howard Gardner’s theory […]
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Orchard Clay Tablets
Do you remember how you learned about ancient civilizations and the earliest forms of writing? Perhaps you remember simply memorizing facts about the Sumerians and ancient Mesopotamia. Our students have to learn a lot of facts, as well. Orchard teachers, however, always go the extra mile to make lessons more meaningful for their students. The […]
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Empty Bowls
Orchard students are in the process of making gorgeous ceramic bowls! On February 25, the entire Orchard community is invited to a dinner of soup, bread, and a dessert. The suggested donation is $10. Families are encouraged to take home one of the wonderful bowls that our students made as a reminder of all of […]
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Students Learn to “Speak Truth to Power” in Civil Rights Reenactments
Teachers at Friends School Haverford often reinforce the Quaker testimonies of equality, peace, and peaceful conflict resolution through play, social interactions, and making connections to powerful stories. But when preschoolers, kindergartners, and their middle school partners—who gather weekly to talk and share different experiences—began working together on their social justice unit, they quickly realized that […]
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Third Graders Make Sparks Fly for STEM Week
Third graders at The Hewitt School took on electrical inventions as their class project for Lower School STEM week in January; not only did their creations surprise their teachers and many of their visiting parent helpers, but everyone had a lot of fun in the process. The initial goal was to understand how a circuit […]
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Master Choral Class Brings School Communities Together
In early 2014, Ranney’s Lower and Middle School Chorus welcomed fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade choral students from a local public school to its campus for a 90-minute collaborative Master Chorale Class. Led by Ranney music teachers Lilly Torrente and Lisa Geene and Indian Hill School’s music director Meredith Thomas, the students shared warm-up and diction […]
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Head-Royce’s Green Efforts Help Create Global Citizens
Head-Royce School in Oakland, CA, went green in 2006 with every member of the K-12 community fully invested in making it happen. And it shows. Today, a new LEED-certified high school building reduced the school’s water consumption by more than a third; landfill waste was cut in half; solar panels generate 17% of the school’s […]
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Sea Crest School Teaches Real-World Computer Science
Recent research suggests that students, particularly girls, do not have a clear picture of what computer science is or what a computer scientist does. Many view computer science as a career that’s focused on simply fixing or studying computers and are unaware of the positive impact that programming can have on people’s lives. Computers touch […]