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Bravery In The Neighborhood 2023
Yesterday, SLAMS 5th and 6th grade students and their families embarked on our interactive walk for the Bravery In The Neighborhood unit. Students worked hard researching and writing about local spots where individuals or groups showed bravery, and then transformed their research into podcasts. Each podcast was added to an interactive Google Map, and groups…
Learning from Ourselves, Learning with Others
In Humanities, students at SLA-MS have been exploring the questions: How do we learn? How do we learn from ourselves? How do we learn from others? As a whole school, we read “Ghost” by Jason Reynolds and worked on determining theme and understanding why determining theme helps us to be stronger readers. As we read,…
Environmental Art
The 6th grade just finished doing a big linocut-printing project in art! Each student chose a letter of the alphabet and researched an environmental related topic they found, expanding on the work they were doing In science on recycling! From their research they developed several designs to represent important ideas or powerful visuals that they…
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″]