We opened our first letters from our pen pals yesterday! Letters were sitting in bins on my desk for a few weeks as we waited for them all to trickle …
by Johanna Parker 
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) are all areas students need to be proficient in so they can be productive, inventive 21st century citizens. As a small, rural school our …
by Johanna Parker 
This year, our scholars started learning about the STEM field. We first learned what it stands for: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. We then learned about several really cool STEM …
by Carly Goldberg 
One of my big goals going into my 2nd year of teaching was to include more problem based learning, labs, and projects in the classroom. Over the past few months …
by Johanna Parker 
In our community, Roseland, only 2% of students graduate from a 4-year university. Our mission at Chicago Collegiate Charter School is that 100% of our students will graduate from college …
by Carly Goldberg 
It just so happened that all the letters came in right before our winter break, so we spend our last few days of school opening and writing back letters! Students …
by Johanna Parker 
When we first started Letters to a Pre-Scientist during the 2010-2011 school year, we had just over 100 committed scientists volunteering as pen pals. The scientists represented about 10 US …
by Lucy 
The month of October brought many fun activities for the young scientists at Chicago Collegiate Charter School. They finished up their Scientific Method Unit (they rocked the Unit test), started …
by Carly Goldberg 
Today’s post was written by Ms. Parker, who teaches 5th grade pre-scientists in Halifax, NC. It’s October! I can hardly believe a month of school has already passed. As a …
by Lucy 
As we approach the middle of September we are finishing up the matching of scientists with prescientists, and are ecstatic to enter our fourth year with this program! As this …
by Lucy 
This June marked middle school graduation for my first class of 6th graders. For those of you that have been with our program from the start, this means your first …
by Lucy 
My students are working hard to learn the DEAL design process within our forces and motion unit. As a STEM middle school, we focus on teaching kids the engineering design …
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