Yesterday MICDS teachers Mike Fitzgerald (5th grade geography) and Jeff Horwitz (2nd grade homeroom) were honored to be included among this year’s 10 ePals Teacher Ambassadors. As noted on the ePals website: We invited teachers to show us how ePals has opened the world for their students. Applicants each submitted projects that they had successfully [...]
Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a staple of our 8th grade English curriculum. In an effort to breathe new life into teaching this classic of modern American literature, Faculty Fellow Angela Hagans guided students (and faculty) through the process of using Prezi to demonstrate what they had learned about a [...]
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, the basis for his seminal work On the Origin of Species, is an overarching theme in our seventh grade life science course. As a year-end experience, our students complete “The Evolution Project“. This multi-faceted, well scaffolded endeavor includes and combines scholarly research, public speaking, technology, and differentiation [...]
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