We Encourage Exploration
Independent schools encourage students to learn about the world and about themselves.
Independent schools encourage students to learn about the world and about themselves.
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Kent Place Middle School Science Expo Showcases Student Research Projects
Kent Place teachers, students and families gathered for an evening celebrating scientific exploration. They observed research projects created by Middle School students on display in Kent Place’s Great Room for the annual Science Expo. The sixth grade students’ research projects tested various claims made about consumer products. For example, a team hypothesized how effective certain […]
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Living Classroom Being Constructed at Charles River School
On the outskirts of the Charles River School campus in Dover lies a piece of land owned by the school that is often overlooked. To the untrained eye, the land appears to be an overgrown plot with some soggy soil, but if given the chance to explore, you will see much more. The land is […]
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Future Engineers
Ranney School’s (Tinton Falls, NJ) youngest students are preparing to reveal self-designed engineering projects as part of a division-wide Engineering Expo taking place in March 2015. Students in Kindergarten through Fifth Grade are spending approximately six weeks in their science classes focusing on engineering, from brainstorming and planning their ideas, to sketching their designs, to […]
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CITYterm at The Masters School
With New York City as our classroom and laboratory, CITYterm at The Masters School brings together seven residential faculty and thirty intellectually adventuresome juniors and seniors in high school for a semester of intensive, experience-based learning. CITYterm challenges its students to think, question, speak up and grow. Together in a close-knit community of students and […]
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City Semester at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School
In City Semester: The Bronx Experience, 15-20 high school sophomores juniors and seniors explore New York City through the lens of the Bronx. We have “traditional” classes in ecology, English, history, foreign language, math, ethics and arts, that connect to each other through our fieldwork- twice a week we leave campus for fieldwork in the […]
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Oceanography Students Contribute to Data Analysis
Science Department Chair Cecelia Pan is incorporating real life research into her curriculum. Students in her Oceanography class are helping scientists and other researchers analyze their over-abundance of data by logging in to a crowd-sourcing data analytic website called zooniverse.com. Students analyze and record results online. Many students are studying photographs of penguin habitats, counting […]
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Hamlin’s First Annual On/Line Teen Dance Film Festival Blends Dance and Technology
This 30-minute film festival was created by The Hamlin School in San Francisco and highlights the work of Middle School dancers at Hamlin as well as selected films from other middle schools and high schools around the globe. This “dance for the camera” work blends dancing and technology in creative and engaging ways. Six other […]
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Exploring the Sun
Stephen Ramsden from the Solar Astronomy Project came to MIS and talked with our students (Grade 4 – Middle School) about the solar system! He brought advanced telescopes and explained some astronomical phenomena to the students. Each student had an opportunity to look through the special telescopes. He was so impressed by the level of […]
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Indoors and Out, Students Gain New Perspectives in “Learning Expeditions”
“Learning Expeditions,” semester-long programs at Watershed School, engage high school students in long-term, in-depth investigations of rich topics or themes through fieldwork, service, and real-world context. This spring, mid-way through their study of the Civil Rights Movement, ninth and tenth graders will leave their classrooms to spend a week touring the American south; eleventh and […]
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Outdoor Education Brings a School Community Together
This winter, kindergarten and first graders at Riverstone International School are learning to ice skate; second and third graders are trying out Nordic skiing; fifth graders are learning about ecosystems and adaptations at an outdoor science school. Older students are camping in snow caves and hiking through the Sawtooth Mountains. That’s because Riverstone’s Outdoor Education […]
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The Buzz on Bees!
The Harker School’s preschool has a STEM lesson on honeybees. After our preschoolers showed curiosity about all the honeybees on campus, our STEM teacher folded a honeybee lesson into her curriculum. She works in collaboration with classroom teachers to introduce new concepts in the four important areas that comprise our STEM lab and farm. For […]
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Overlake Students Taking Mandarin Make Music Video
Overlake Students taking Mandarin 5 took it upon themselves to make a music video. The students re-worked the song “Welcome to Beijing” to “Welcome to Overlake,” and shot the video on our beautiful campus. There are no subtitles on the video, but you can enjoy the lyrics below: Overlake 欢迎你 Welcome to Overlake by中文五班 By […]