Community building is a FOUNDATIONAL COMPONENT of our Middle School division. This past week, our seventh graders took part in a selfie scavenger hunt that took them on a short journey throughout our campus. Utilizing the GooseChase app on one team member’s phone, all seven advisory teams did their best to create a selfie that best exhibited important values of teamwork, hope, and no limits.
In seventh grade Math, students elevated their knowledge of polygons by creating a free-standing structure made of toothpicks, blue tack, and wooden. The goal was to construct the tallest structure that would hold a ping pong ball. The current record is 41 centimeters. Teams practiced design thinking skills as they sketched their plans, assigned roles, built the prototype, improved as necessary, and then completed their structures by the end of the class period. Angle size, side lengths, and polygons with limited sides were deemed more beneficial in comparison to others.
