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Arts News, February 28

Bill Smith, Woodworking and 21st Century Skills Teacher
February 28, 2019

Beautiful Bandsaw Boxes

Seventh and eighth graders in woodworking are making great progress in designing and creating bandsaw boxes. Each student starts  their boxes from one solid block of wood that they cut a dozen times to make the components for the box. The students’ designs differ greatly, from linear pieces to those featuring asymmetrical abstract curves.

A student at a desk holding a pencil with a math textbook

By Sarah Pikcilingis, seventh grade math teacher |

October 9, 2026

A seemingly simple warm-up exercise in a recent seventh grade math class posed the question, “For each pair of shapes, decide whether or not they are the same.” This warm-up should take 2 or 3 minutes. Instead, when they checked…
Two students set up a marble run in science class

BDS

October 9, 2026

What is energy? Where does the energy in roller coaster cars come from? Does a coaster’s height affect its speed? These are some of the questions fourth graders are asking in science class. To answer these questions, students have been…
BDS Eighth English 1 09.30.26Web

BDS

October 2, 2026

Students in eighth-grade English read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders over the summer and have spent the first few weeks of school engaging in discussions to deepen their thinking and perhaps expand their perspectives on the book’s themes. They also have…
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