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A Visit to the Eleanor D Wilson Museum
Each week the Galleries class visits a new museum. Enjoy these photos from their field trip to the Eleanor D Wilson Museum at Hollins University.
Ant Restaurant
Ant Club opened a restaurant with a variety of courses and they observed the ants to see which foods they preferred.
Llama en Lima
The Spanish class is reading “Llama en Lima” by Katie A. Baker which is a story about the adventures of a llama, a monkey, and a guinea pig who have escaped from a zoo in Lima, Peru. Oliva’s guinea pig named Fritz visited class to learn more about what Cuy has been up to in […]
Macroinvertebrates
Meg‘s Environmental Science class identified and counted macroinvertebrate organisms gathered in experimental leaf pack bags over the past two weeks in Carvin Creek. The class is going to use the data to assess stream quality and learn about habitat characteristics for these little critters.
Mixing It Up In Calculus class
The Calculus class got competitive with a “friendly” game of Grudge ball. The students had to answer questions correctly to earn chances to shoot the ball and eliminate their opponents.
Stitching Club Works On Blankets to Donate
In Stitching Club, co-founders, Eliza G. and Yutika P. are teaching interested students how to crochet every week. Their semester long goal is to make blankets out of plastic yarn that the group will then donate. The club is also a space for other stitching forms and all are welcomed to join.
Fall 2021 Community Service Day with BillionGraves
BillionGraves is the world’s largest resource for searchable GPS cemetery data, and is growing bigger and better every day. For this community service project, our students contributed by taking headstone images from a local cemetery, and then transcribing the personal information found on the images. The GPS information collected helps others research expansive family histories from […]
PSAT Cool Down
The PSATs are over! The students took some time afterwards to decompress with friends.
Cartography
Warren’s Geography class took a creative hands-on approach to explore methods of cartography which included charting geographic location, choosing symbolization strategies, and studying how landforms interact across the surface of the earth. It was a challenge of visual communication skills and hand-eye coordination. The students also had to coordinate where their landmasses end up on the […]
Carvin Creek Experiment
Meg’s Environmental Science class took a field trip to Carvin Creek to place experimental leaf pack bags in the stream. These bags were collected later to observe the macro-invertebrates and other critters caught in them back in the lab. Certain types of macro-invertebrates can be a helpful indicator species for water quality in stream ecosystems.
Zoë Receives the Bowdoin College Book Award
We congratulate Zoë L. on being chosen as our 2021 Bowdoin College Book Award recipient. She was chosen because she demonstrates: Extraordinary Service to the Common Good and an Unusual Passion for Inquiry, Discovery, and Innovative Thinking.
Density Column Lab
Our Chemistry students had fun making colorful density columns. The stacked liquid layers stay separate because each substance has a different density from the others.