SCHOOL NEWS
A NOVEL APPROACH TO LEARNING
BY TOM DICHIARA
A Novel Approach to
Learning This spring, Middle School art students created masterpiece sculptures using tin foil; budding freshmen biologists learned to extract DNA from a piece of fruit; eighth grade historians dreamed up origin myths for far-flung civilizations; Upper School Latin students retold The Aeneid with LEGO animation videos; ninth grade writers captured their feelings in their very own poetry portfolio; and Lower School mathematicians helped their fellow Bears grasp complicated concepts—and they did it all from their own homes during distance learning.
Deji ’24
