Category: Science
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Class 3-4 Trip to Beech Hill. By Class Teacher Robert Kaczor
It was a damp, foggy, almost springlike day on Friday, January 17, when the Grade 3-4 class left campus to hike Beech Hill in Rockport. We had been studying local geography and it was my hope that we would be able to see and sketch some of the islands and mountains the students had been…
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Lecture on Modern Brain Research and Education
This Friday, September 13, at 7:00 p.m. Douglas Gerwin, PhD, will offer a lecture on “Turning Education on Its Head: What modern brain research says about how children and young adults learn.” The lecture takes place at Merriconeag Waldorf School in Freeport. Recent neuro-scientific research shows that the brain behaves less like a “hard-wired” computer,…
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Animal Studies in the Fourth Grade
From Nature Stories to Natural Science by Lesley Finlayson, Fourth Grade Teacher The Fourth Grade spent the month of February immersed in its second “Human Being and Animal World” block. These two blocks are truly marvelous, for many reasons. The classroom is abuzz with enthusiasm, because the children are enormously interested in animals, and throw…
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A New Approach to Teaching Science
Twenty-first century children are entering a world filled with complex technological wonders that allow them to communicate with people across the globe in seconds, have vast storehouses of information, literally, at their finger tips, and look forward to a future where machines will be able to perform highly sophisticated functions previously delegated to…