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    “The Woman in Gold” Offers a Golden Learning Opportunity in Collaboration

    “Once the past has been put to right, we will not have come here in vain…We should be reunited with what is rightfully ours.” These are the powerful words of Maria Altman, a woman whose story we become well-acquainted with in my Spanish IV Honors and Spanish IV Regular classes. Altman was an ordinary citizen […]

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    4 Ways to Bring STEAM to Life with Elementary Students

    At Milton Hershey School, our STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) curriculum is a major part of students’ education beginning in elementary school. In our dynamic Innovation Lab designed for first through fourth-graders, students complete interactive activities that revolve around science, technology, computer programming, art, and robotics. With introductions to design thinking, coding, engineering, […]

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    Ready, Set, Print!

    Can a 3D printer replicate a real-life playground? Flint Hill Middle School Math teacher Erin McKavitt sought to answer this question with her Pre-Algebra classes this year. Last fall, in partnership with KOMPAN, the School opened three new, state-of-the-art playgrounds for its Lower and Middle School students. And inside the classroom, students had the opportunity […]

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    Breakout Boxes

    Our 6th grade geography class used a creative way to study for their exam! Clues, aka review questions, were hidden around the library/media center to open up the “breakout boxes” – an educational spin on the “breakout rooms!” Students used a cypher key and a black light to see invisible ink to crack the clues. […]

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    Miquon Uses the Electoral College to Select the ‘National Doughnut’

    On the heels of the U.S. Presidential election, 5th and 6th graders at The Miquon School entered their own contest to determine a campus favorite. Electing the national doughnut simulated the presidential race, complete with campaigning, balloting and calculating votes. Simulation, an educational technique used in a variety of settings, presents students an opportunity to […]

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    Learning in Two Languages: A Young Bilingual Scientist Describes Experiments in French & English

    A bilingual immersion program isn’t only learning two languages simultaneously—it’s learning, understanding, analyzing, and communicating concepts in two languages. In this video, one of our 3rd graders describes two science experiments; one in French, and the other in English.

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    Grade 3 “Votes” on Election Day

    Students in Grade 3 exercised their right to vote today during class. They presented their “id cards” to their teachers and received official ballots and took them to the “booths” in their classrooms. Each student voted on important choices including: 1. Favorite Cleveland Sports Team (Cavs) 2. Favorite Type of Pizza (Cheese) 3. Favorite Color […]

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    The Tiny House Project at Colorado Academy

    Colorado Academy turned over a decommissioned school bus to the students in the Innovation Lab. Faculty from both the art and science departments taught the year-long course. The bus is a house on wheels, and will be used on school outings and outdoor trips.

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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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    “Our Mind”

    UMS-Wright continues to set the example in education as we nurture and shape the minds of our students. During the Spring of 2016, we released a series of four videos (Our School, Our Mind, Our Body and Our Spirit) that give viewers an inside glimpse into “Our School.”

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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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    Applied Physics and Design–Motorboat Project

    Belmont Hill Form III students recently traveled to Concord River in Bedford, MA to test drive motorboats built in their Conceptual Physics class with Mr. Trautz and Mr. Tahan. The boats were an applied physics and design project, in which the boys designed the boats using CAD software and prototyped them using markup models. The […]

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