From CAD To Cut: Crafting Furniture In 9th Grade Design
“I mean, I did woodwork in lower school. But this is different. It’s not too hard, though, and it’s really enjoyable.” 9th Grade Designers have …
Ready Player Fun: 5th Graders Tackle Coding And Game Design
“Okay, disclaimer! This game takes a long time to explain how it works.” 5th Grade designers and engineers hosted their Maker Arcade this week, inviting …
Tap It Out, Tap It In: Syllables and Sounds in Kindergarten Literacy
“Oh my dog is so sad, look at it has tears!” Kindergarten writers and readers this week played word games and wrote and illustrated single …
The Artist is Present: Art, Memory, and History in 9th Grade English
“I don’t really want to draw younger me, very specifically. Maybe I can be like a shadow figure.” 9th Grade writers, readers, and thinkers began …
On the Ode: 8th Graders Study Poetic Tributes
“They have secret meanings… like, meanings deeper than what’s actually written. Also, it has emotions for the reader.” 8th Grade writers, readers, and thinkers this …
Math, Mangos, and Mahalo in Junior Kindergarten
“We could cut them into very small pieces and pass them until everyone has some.” This, week Jr Kindergarteners explored letters, books, math and new …
Playing with Vowels in First Grade
“I can explain! An r-controlled vowel is like there’s an r behind a vowel and then it makes a different sound and it changes the …
¡Vamos a Aprender! Adventures in 9th Grade Spanish
“Some of us just weren’t born to go with the flow… We are unique and special.” 9th Grade Spanish 1 writers, readers, and speakers last …
Exploring 6th Grade Algebra: Strengthening Math Foundations
“It’s the same I think. I tried two and 10 in the problem and they both worked out the same on both sides.” 6th Grade …
The (Log)arithm is Gonna Get You: 9th Grade Mathematicians Build Math Fluency
“Are estimating skills an important thing? Like, if we were to pursue this in college, would we keep doing it more?” 9th Grade mathematicians in …