Archive for September 2021
Physics in the Garden at Home Depot
Juniors in the Design & Engineering class talked to experts from the gardening department at Home Depot to investigate the physics of gardening tools. In the first unit of this STEAM course, students have been pursuing the guiding question: What lies at the heart of our fundamental drive to create tools?. In their pursuit of…
Read MoreAssessing Human Needs at Lincoln Park Community Services
Unit I of SDGs & You is entitled Access, and it asks students to investigate the first, second, and fourth Sustainable Development Goals: No Poverty, No Hunger, and Quality Education (respectively). As a part of their investigation, students prepared and delivered meals to Lincoln Park Community Service. Students were responsible for planning bagged 45 people while…
Read MoreExploring the Chicago River with Urban Rivers
First-year students embarked on their first off-campus Field Experience of their GCE career, and it was definitely one for the books. The students are investigating the guiding question, “How is our understanding of water reflected in our interactions with it?” in their STEAM course, Water. Phil from Urban Rivers talked about their efforts to restore…
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