Monthly Archives: May 2017

Using the new Google Sites, for their end of year exam Spanish I students created cultural websites based around a Spanish speaking country of their choice. The sites had to contain a page covering the basic information about their country, a … Continue reading →

Inspired by a previous post, for their culminating project American Literature students had to create a class portfolio of their writings from the year. Using a WordPress blog students had to submit ten pieces of class work complete with an … Continue reading →

During the last couple of weeks of school Biology students’ final project was to design and plant a digital garden. Students designed their garden as a means to learn about plant structure and function. They produced a detailed 2D design of their garden using either … Continue reading →

Honors Geometry students spent the latter part of the winter term working through a unit on similarity. As an extension of this unit, they worked through a project on 2-dimensional scaled floor plans and 3-dimensional models during one of the … Continue reading →

Grade 6/7 Art students recently completed a 2D animation project using a combination of their Chromebooks and the iMacs in the library computer lab. The students started off by storyboarding their ideas to plan out the narrative of their animations. They … Continue reading →

The students in the Functions and Applications class recently embarked on an exploration of the graphs of sine and cosine. They used the ratios that they had been studying during the unit on right triangle trigonometry to physically measure and … Continue reading →

The French I students have been learning basic vocabulary to describe the world around them. During the Spring Trimester, the focus of this vocabulary acquisition is the “City” and what better lieu to use for our study than the shining … Continue reading →

This year’s Modern Storytelling class listened to episodes of a variety of podcasts, getting a feel for how stories are effectively told through this audio format. After listening to a collection of programs, we had a Skype visit from T.M. … Continue reading →

Grade 7 Math students spent the past two weeks working on a survey project, with each student picking a topic of interest, creating a survey based around this topic, collecting data from the school community and then analyzing and reporting … Continue reading →