Fresh, clean water is a valuable resource. In our watershed lesson, we talked about the importance of conserving and recycling the water we use. Students used simple recycled materials to design and build a model “rain catcher” to store and distribute rain water for every day use — watering plants, […]
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What do you get when you start with corks, cardboard, and a hot glue gun? Boats, of course! Our students worked in pairs to design a boat that would carry a cargo of two cups full of sand. After drawing their design and creating a “parts list”, our teams constructed […]
This year we are excited to start a special technology-focused program for our middle-school students. We started the year with an introduction to computer programming using SCRATCH – a graphically based system created at MIT for teaching basic concepts and enabling students to create their own interactive games, stories, and […]