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Fifth Grade: Plot. Characters. Pictures…Book It!
Fifth grade authors, editors, and art directors as well as their teachers waded together through an eye-opening experience of conceiving, writing, and illustrating unbound picture books. The unit launched in the library as English teacher Ben Bacon and librarian Laurie Prothro introduced a variety of picture book styles and formats, as well as provided a […]
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The MiniversityTM – Senior HIgh School Re-imagined
Mental health issues in universities; non-teaching periods scattered randomly through a traditional timetable; a whole city for our campus but field trips causing so much nuisance to those not involved; the growing importance of teachers and their need to increase, constantly, their capacity to succeed with every student; the infuriating, mistaken assumption that students can […]
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Admiral Farragut Academy students attend prestigious summer academies for leadership and sailing
Each summer, students from Admiral Farragut Academy represent the school in noble ways by participating in various leadership programs. The summer of 2016 was no different as cadets from the upper school served as mentors or participants at the Naval Academy Summer Seminar, the NJROTC Area Seven Leadership Academy, the Sail Academy, and LeaderSail. In […]
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A Unique Spin on the Classic Oral Book Report
Our 6th grade reading class put a spin on the classic oral book report. Each sixth grader chose a book to read, then selected a character from the book to portray in full costume and with props. We made trading cards which had the character’s photo on the front and three questions on the back […]
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Trinity Hall Fosters Innovative, Empathetic Engineers
Trinity Hall students practice human-centered design-thinking to develop prototypes where empathy is the central attribute. The final experiences of the junior engineering classes included product designs that embraced empathy as the singular most important attribute for designing the details of their product, and were inspired by social issues and personal experiences. The students were asked […]
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Middle School Entrepreneurs Take On The “Shark Tank”
Gladwyne Montessori’s 7th and 8th grade students capped off their yearlong Entrepreneurship studies with presentations to a carefully chosen panel of potential “investors” in Gladwyne Montessori’s Shark Tank. Following the style of the popular television show for entrepreneurs, students presented business plan proposals for the new companies they created going over profits, business goals, marketing […]
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Coding in Preschool Enriches Literacy and Numeracy Development
At Wheeling Country Day School, we believe that our youngest students are more than capable of higher level thinking with the support of teachers and parents. We designed our early childhood STEM initiatives around engineering, technology, natural sciences and robotics. Our youngest preschoolers have fun learning to sequence and communicate through gross motor and electronic […]
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M.A.D. Design Thinking: How Fourth Graders Made a Difference in Their Community
Fourth Graders at Kalamazoo Country Day School are M.A.D., or making a difference in their own community through Design Thinking. In January, KCDS fourth graders decided to use the Design Thinking process to reach out to their surrounding community. They chose to work with Adult Day Services at Oakland Center. The fourth graders began by […]
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Seventh Grade Inventions Bring All Hands on Deck
While prosthetics technology has become highly developed in the past 10 years, the average cost for a prosthetic limb is anywhere from $5,000 – $50,000, and can be unaffordable to many people. Seventh graders at St. John’s Episcopal School, which uses a project-based, STEAM approach to learning to address real world problems in inventive ways, […]
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From Paper to Product
In a unique product design project, fifth-grade art students took their ideas to paper, manipulated them on the computer and then presented them in three dimensions. Not only did the students have to invent and name a product, but they also had to create it and package it.
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Musicians Master the Art and Responsibility of Live Performance
With every note they play, students in Kent Denver School’s award-winning R&B group, The Quincy Ave. Rhythm Band, envelop listeners in a rich cocoon of emotion and song. DownBeat magazine recently named the ensemble the Best High School Band in the Country in the pop/rock/blues category—the seventh time in a decade the school has received […]
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Students Use Integrative Thinking to Explore, Understand Ancient Civilizations
EVERlab, in its pilot year at Jewish Community High School of the Bay, focuses on students’ integration of concepts, ideas, and themes from both their Jewish and general studies courses. The Hebrew root word “EVER” means crossing over and the ability to be in transition, so the program uses design thinking, ideation, iteration, and collaboration […]