Have you wondered what other educational opportunities exist in your community? Join Mountain River School (MRS) at E=MC2 Community Center (26 Union Street) in Morrisville on May 13 from 6-8 PM to learn more about MRS Place-Based Education. Not sure what place-based education is? Read on:
In Fall 2018 the MRS Meadows class (grades 2 & 3) explored food and energy. As part of this project, the class was tasked with planning, shopping for, and preparing meals and snacks for an all-school hike. They started with a science experiment timing the burn rate of foods over a flame to understand how long different foods would fuel an active body for (marshmallows burned the fastest; nuts & beef jerky the slowest!) They then questioned and researched why certain foods were nourishing and sustaining and what made them that way. With this information they prepared a menu. While making trail mix, their teacher seamlessly incorporated measurement, fractions and multiplication. Following the hike, students prepared a survey asking their peers how they liked the food, and graphed their results. Each student then wrote a non-fiction story about their experience, complete with diorama of their favorite part, and presented their work to fellow students and an impressed parent community. This is one example of what Place-Based Education looks like at Mountain River School.
"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn" ~ Benjamin Franklin
MRS students experience their education. Excellent academics + design thinking & problem solving + collaboration + community = Place-Based Education. In support of core academics, students engage daily on themed projects that weave our strong curriculum together with real-world investigations to solidify their learning.
Join us at E=MC2 Community Center (26 Union Street) in Morrisville on May 13 from 6-8 PM to learn more about Mountain River School and Place-Based Education.
To learn more about Mountain River School or Place-Based Education please visit our website at http://mountainriverschool.org.
The Mountain River School, LTD admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.
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