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Honors Geometry – Scale Models

Honors Geometry students spent the the first part of the spring term working through a unit on Similarity. As an extension of this unit, they recently worked through a project on 2-dimensional scaled floor plans and 3-dimensional models. In groups, … Continue reading

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Humanities History – Ancient Greek Newspaper

A collaborative writing project the Freshmen recently completed last semester in their English and Humanities classes was the creation of an Ancient Greek newspaper. The students were split into groups and each was responsible for one section of the newspaper, from local … Continue reading

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Grade 7 Math – Surveys & Data Analysis Project

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

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French Advanced: Bastide 3D Design

French Advanced students have been learning about traditional French towns called bastides, which were typically designed with a surrounding wall, a central church and marketplace. With the aim of getting the students to really study the design and layout of these … Continue reading

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French Novice – Children’s Storybooks

French Novice students have recently been learning vocabulary for different animals, items of clothing and colors. Based around these sets of words they each created a digital children’s storybook in which an animal visits a famous place and then puts on … Continue reading

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Grade 7 Latin – Ancient Britain Google My Maps

Salvete, amici! The 7th grade Latin class is putting to rest, once and for all, the incorrect statement that “Latin is a dead language”. This year, in addition to grammar and history study, the students have been listening to the … Continue reading

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French Intermediate – 3D Cathedral Design

Many years ago, my husband and I read Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth before we traveled to England. That book gave us an excellent background on gothic architecture and it helped us gain a better understanding and appreciation of … Continue reading

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Humanities History – Virtual Field Trip to the Parthenon

Mr. Middleton’s Humanities History classes recently went on a virtual field trip to the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. Using the school’s set of Google Cardboard VR headsets and the students’ smartphones we used a selection of apps to visit the … Continue reading

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Augmented Reality in the Classroom

Augmented reality (AR) is the real time combination of digital information with your surrounding environment. AR uses your device’s camera to capture this environment and its digital display to overlay new information on top of it. During some recent faculty … Continue reading

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Conceptual Physics – 3D Car Race Day

For the final part of the Conceptual Physics project based around car design, students had to prep their 3D printed cars for the test ramp and were then given three chances to record their fastest speed down the ramp (recorded with … Continue reading

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