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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…

On Saturday, September 26, six intrepid middle school students took part in the Greater Boston Model UN Conference sponsored by the United Nations Association of Greater Boston. The students participated with about 400 other middle school students from around New…

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…

Sixth-grade science class recently wrapped up their unit on the scientific method by blending scientific inquiry with creative storytelling. The primary learning goal of this activity was to deepen students’ understanding of experimental design—including formulating hypotheses, identifying variables, and analyzing…