by Miranda Hine | Oct 25, 2025 | 2025-2026, grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
Our Reconstruction unit started with a few simple questions: What is History? Who cares? Why Study it? The overarching theme to the students’ answers was that we study history to learn from it and to not repeat it. Then students considered the Declaration of...
by newschoolsyr | May 19, 2025 | grades 4 - 8, science
Students in grades 4-8 learned about forces and bridges during science class lead by our student teacher, Alexandra. They learned what load, compression, and tension is. As well, they learned about three main types of bridges-arch, suspension, and beam bridge. Words...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 5, 2024 | affective education, Community, Cortland Student Teacher, grades 4 - 8, visual arts
Each week, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth graders learned about how various art forms can be used as a form of activism. In the beginning, students learned about the term, artavists, meaning individuals that use art to be an activist. After learning about...
by newschoolsyr | May 29, 2021 | 2020-2021, Community, grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
New School students, grades 4 – 8, were assigned to find the answer to a number of questions teachers posed relating to Education, Syracuse’s Police Department, Lead Poisoning, Housing and Health. Their findings were discussed with the class. After digesting all...
by newschoolsyr | Jan 15, 2021 | 2020-2021, grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
After the social injustice occurrences this past summer, The New School took it upon themselves to educate our students on the history to gain a better understanding of what is happening in our country. You could see our students learning about slavery and injustice...
by newschoolsyr | Jan 5, 2021 | 2020-2021, grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
After the social injustice occurrences this past summer, The New School took it upon itself to educate its students on the history of social injustice in order to gain a better understanding of what is happening in our country. You could see our students learning...
