Dear Virtual World Parents, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope the holiday finds you and your children safe and warm, surrounded by a loving family. After the sledding adventures have exhausted your kids, and before you grow frustrated that they are spending too much time ‘playing’ games, challenge them to create them. […]
Students from Mrs. Keriotis’s class and I were able to talk briefly about Typhoon Haiyan. While I showed images of the satellite imagery of the Typhoon and mentioned that many had been hurt or killed, I made an effort to stay away from images of the devastation and added some […]
We are in the midst of our exploration of weather. Our virtual worlds have an atmosphere and a water cycle. This week we focus on clouds. Some ways to reinforce the lessons at home: Each student is writing a descriptive paragraph about a storm on their virtual world. We plan […]
Week 6 of Virtual Worlds was this week! We returned to planetary science for a week to talk about the moon and work to complete our twelve slide Google Docs presentation on our virtual planets. We will continue to polish these, and finish painting our 3D models as we explore […]
Baden Academy Charter School is thrilled to announce the 2013-14 Research Fellows. Twelve third and fourth graders were chosen from twenty-two applications. Projects range from space radiation shielding to App Development. The Research Fellows Program at the school is available by application to students in grades three and up. They […]
Owen longed to make math education challenging and fun. He worked with mentor Aileen Owens from South Fayette High School to develop a Scratch Game for 1st graders to work with addition and subtraction equations. He began two great traditions. The first of research fellows working with classrooms and teachers […]
A Groma robot dressed in an orange cape, googly eyes, and lab glasses invaded the Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd-grade classrooms at Baden Academy Charter School as part of a research project and April Fool’s joke by Ava Coups, a 3rd grader at the school. Ava is part of the […]
Kate H. loves reading, gymnastics, amusement parks, and deadly stuff. She wanted to do a project on deadly things, like reptiles (but not turtles). She decided to do her project on snakes. At first, she wanted to work with live snakes, but there were rules about that and it wasn’t […]
Eli L. is a 3rd grade Research Fellow at Baden Academy Charter School. He dreams of creating 6-Dimensional Film experiences. (A cinematic experience that allows the movie-goer to be fully immersed by actually entering the film.) His project this year was to create a documentary of the first year of the […]
Skylar R. came to the lab with dreams of working with technology. Her first project idea was not a video. It was to work with an Arduino and program a sign for the lab. But we couldn’t get a mentor, and the programming was currently more in depth than our […]