Earlier in the year, our elementary school CSW classes learned about the structure of human hands by building working models showing bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
In April, our middle- and high-school classes explored this topic by dissecting actual chicken feet. In addition to learning basic dissection techniques and safety, the students were able to do”hands-on” tests and observation of the actions way tendons, bones, and muscles interacted to move the digits of the foot.
Fresh, clean water is a valuable resource. In our watershed lesson, we talked about the importance of conserving and recycling the water […]
Following up on our our study of the components and functions of the eye, our middle-school students got to examine them up […]
Can you build a bridge out of newspaper? Our students were challenged to design a bridge using only newspaper and tape […]
In our after-school program we are studying ecology and the world around us. When we spent the afternoon outside on our “Creepy Crawly Critter Scavenger […]
