4/3/10

Red Cedar Students Share Learning

Students shared their learning from January and February with their parents and the school community.
The primary group regularly creates improvisational music. Parents listened in on one of their sessions.
Bill and Sam
Anoushka, Ezekiel and Bill

Upper elementary and primary students each presented learning from an independent study they did. Amelia shares her project on diabetes.

Charlie and his study on Coastguard Rescue
Anoushka's study on dolphins
Lena and her study on chemicals in cosmetics
Louis and his study on plumbing.
A drawing of the plumbing apparatus in his basement.
Ezekiel's frog study.


Nadine's study on ocean pollution.


Nadine's drawings of a sea turtle and a crab.


From Isaiah's study of Egyptian mythology - a comparison of two gods


Quinn's drawing of a viper fish for his ocean floor study

Middle school students each wrote a science research paper. For the sharing of learning they each gave oral presentations accompanied by Power Point visuals which summarized their projects.
Research topics for the group included: Adrian - Nanotechnology in the Medical Field; C - Human evolution; Evan - Reflective Nanotechnology; John - Viability of Wood Gasification; Kellen - Nanotechnology; Margot - The Deep Sea; Miranda - Robotics and Artificial Intelligence; Parker - Extra-Solar Planets and the Possibilities of Life; Patrick - Formation of Black Holes and the Singularity; Zoe - Large Hadron Collider.

Middle school students also designed and built bridges in math class. 
John with his wooden truss bridge.


Margot with her trestle bridge

C with his bridge


The upper elementary group created large maps of regions on the United States.