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Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images. They hear the media, adults, other peers talking about events and opinions as they move through their days. Some of...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 19, 2020 | 2019 - 2020, grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
The Constitution Convention of 1787 inspired us to reenact the almost four months of debate that took place in Philadelphia as the forty founding fathers debated ho0w to modify the Articles of Confederation and then finally threw them out altogether and started a...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 17, 2020 | 2019 - 2020, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grades 4 - 8, visual arts
Many of our students went over and beyond our expectations for this fascinating assignment where they had to identify a famous painting and reimagine it, take a fresh look, and or put themselves in the painting. We provided students with a video of 100 of the most...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 16, 2020 | 2019 - 2020, Community, grades 4 - 8, Social Studies
This unit began soon after we switched to distance learning and we had to adjust and modify the curriculum accordingly. Instead of taking the students to visit the three branches of local government in Syracuse, we invited representatives of each to be interviewed via...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 9, 2020 | 2019 - 2020, grades 4 - 8, science
Questions guided our unit: How do things make sound? How does sound travel through liquids, solids and gases? What determines the pitch of a sound? How is sound measured and how do our ears allow us to hear sounds? To help us answer such questions, we went on field...
by newschoolsyr | Nov 27, 2019 | 2019 - 2020, grades 4 - 8, language arts
This fall, students in grades 4-8 participated in a cursive class that reviewed (and sometimes retaught) all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet. There was much discussion and practice with our lowercase letters: clock climbers, kite strings, the loop group,...
