Science Leadership Academy Middle School
School District of PhiladelphiaCategory: Student Projects
Walking Tour of West Philadelphia
Today is the day! Join us on our walking tour of West Philadelphia as we celebrate Bravery In The Neighborhood! In Humanities, students have been studying bravery from both a personal and historical perspective. We’ve looked at bravery within ourselves as readers and writers, literacy as bravery throughout history, and bravery in middle school. In…
Join Us For Our Bravery In The Neighborhood Walking Tour December 19
On Tuesday, December 19th, students will have the final presentation for their Bravery in the Neighborhood project. For this project, students chose a location in the neighborhood, did extensive research on the site, and then outlined, drafted, revised, and recorded a podcast about their site. Now, we have compiled these podcasts to create an audio…
75 Pounds of Bananas
In STEM classes, students are exploring the question: what is a variable? On the math end we’re looking at variables in math equations and how we use order of operations to help us solve for these unknown values. On the science end, things are a little…smellier. Students learned about controls and variables in scientific…
The Water Cycle & Multiplication in STEM
What are the ways water moves and changes? STEM classes have been exploring this question for the last two weeks and are currently creating models that show how water changes and moves throughout the water cycle. Students are also developing their multiplicative thinking as they investigate how much rain falls in a certain place over…
Create A Tool
Part way into our bookcase study, students began wondering if they would REALLY get to use power tools (the answer was, of course, yes!) and how these tools worked. From these questions, we began our study of Work and Simple Machines. Grounded in the question, “What tools will help make the work of building a…
Where are we going to keep all the books?
After extensive work researching books students wanted to order for our library and building a budget with our allotted money, students were thrilled when the books finally arrived! It took only a few minutes before students were asking, “Where are going to keep all the books?” This question launched our next project: book case design!…
Project Information – Techsplorations
Techsplorations classes are beginning their end of unit project. Below are the guidelines and rubrics. [pdf-embedder url=”http://slamiddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Digital-Citizenship-Guide-Instructions.pdf” title=”digital-citizenship-guide-instructions”]
Project Information – Neptune/Saturn Streams
Neptune and Saturn students, here are your instructions for your September project. [pdf-embedder url=”http://slamiddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NeptuneSaturnProjectSheetsforMeredith.pdf” title=”Neptune-Saturn Project Sheets September 2016″]