Field Experiences

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…

First-year students in the Water class visited the Chicago River to collect water. In the first unit of this STEAM course, students have been pursuing the guiding question, Why is water so common yet so rare?. In their pursuit of an answer, students have been learning about the abundance of water found in living organisms…

Students in the Stories class returned to the Poetry Foundation to revisit the beautiful visual poems by Monica Ong. In Stories, students explore their voice as storytellers while examining the power and responsibility that come with narrative building. In the first unit, students read creation stories from around the world in order to write creation…

Sophomores in the Stories class found sanctuary from the bustling city at the Poetry Foundation. In this course, students examine how we can shape stories through language, perspective, and different modes of communication. They visited Monica Ong’s visual poems from the Planetaria exhibit at the Poetry Foundation. She playfully takes poetry off the page as…

First-year students in the SDGs & You class and the Water class embarked on a cross-curicular Field Experience. The students spent a beautiful fall day biking around Big Marsh to learn about the marsh as a sustainable ecosystem and the importance of green spaces in urban development. Big Marsh is on the eastern shore of…