MOST RECENT VIDEOS

• 00:03 Happy Valentine's Day

  4th graders had a great time passing out Valentine's to their classmates on Monday!

  Uploaded Feb 18, 2022 by Katherine Cooper
• 00:15 Minds at Work

  Students worked together using limited materials to build a structure that had to stand on it's own.

  Uploaded Feb 18, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:15 Building Structures

  Today, students build structures to withstand the wind and rain of a hurricane.

  Uploaded Feb 18, 2022 by LeiAnna Carrasco
• 00:46 Moot Court | Tinker v. Des Moines

  8th graders simulated Supreme Court proceedings for the 1968 case of Tinker v. Des Moines. Students played the roles of the justices, as well as the attorneys arguing each side of the case. Students developed questions for each set of attorneys, while attorneys crafted arguments based on precedent and their understanding of first amendment rights in schools.

  Uploaded Feb 15, 2022 by Marianne Sharping
• 1:01 Gallery Walk

  6th and 7th grade classes used our Gallery Walk activity to review primary resources for each of our units of study. 6th looked at various resources from maps and first hand accounts bearing witness to the tragedies of the Holocaust. 7th graders looked at resources analyzing slavery as an institution of power.

  Uploaded Feb 15, 2022 by Marianne Sharping
• 00:34 5th grade Sediment Lab Featured

  In our pursuit to make a salad dressing that stays mixed together, we tested different ingredients to see if they would create sediment in water or if they would dissolve.

  Uploaded Feb 12, 2022 by Ryan Cherry
• 2:17 Week 21: Feb. 7--Feb. 11, 2022

  This week's photo montage includes: 8th graders working cooperatively to sort embryo cards of various stages of gestation for various vertebrates as part of their ongoing unit exploring "Evolution"; 6th grade students working in collaborative groups learning the skills of geologists using "remote sensing" skills to investigate "How are underground deposits of natural resources located" as part of their unit on "Earth's Resources; and another appearance of our class pet bearded dragon, Curtiss. Thank you for checking in with us this week!

  Uploaded Feb 12, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 1:24 Checkout our 'Penguin Hideouts'!

  Students have been brainstorming & experimenting how to create a penguin hideout to keep penguins safe from predators. It's been great to see students persevere despite the challenges they've encountered along the way, especially when they encourage each other to not give up! Checkout their hideouts which include a lookout tower, slide and a rookery. Enjoy!

  Uploaded Feb 06, 2022
• 4:41 Week 20: Jan. 31--Feb. 4, 2022

  This week's slideshow highlights lots of cooperative learning in Science Class: 8th graders examining fossil evidence of whales and dinosaur footprints as part of their unit exploring "Evolution"; 7th graders presenting to their classmates their "Critter Pups", which they created as a way of modeling the passing of traits from parents to offspring through heredity as part of their unit exploring "Reproduction", 7th graders also conducted an investigation exploring the mutual interactions of plant and animal pollinators; 6th graders investigating a "mystery mineral" where they conducted numerous experiments to determine whether the mineral was calcite or quartz, and they also analyzed and interpreted data on global resource consumption and per capita consumption of copper, fresh water, and petroleum as part of their unit exploring "Earth's Resources", and one photo of students looking out the window during the snowstorm this past week that I titled, "Snowday???" :)

  Uploaded Feb 06, 2022 by Gerard Kovach
• 2:56 Tired of Winter? Try a family trip to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum!

  The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is located right across the street from The Lincoln Park Zoo and is a great place to go on a quick family trip for our students to extend their understanding of phenomena related to how the Earth is changing due to human-induced global warming and climate change. The museum includes live animals native to our region and numerous displays to show what we as individuals can do to help protect our local natural ecosystems.

  Uploaded Feb 06, 2022 by Gerard Kovach