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Summer 2021
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May 2021
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February 2021
We need students to design the future of advanced learning! Please consider joining a working group by clicking HERE.
Black History Month
Prompt:
- Choose a person, event, or idea from the text. Explain what the text reveals about your chosen topic.
- Write a fictional narrative that is based on a person, event, or idea from the text. Use your chosen detail as the starting point for telling a story that is meant to entertain, inform, or persuade your reader.
January 2021
Submit a piece of writing that salutes engineering’s role in meeting and defeating the challenges presented by COVID-19.
Write a news story or blog post that illustrates the contribution of engineers in responding to the pandemic. You may include one original image or graphic and up to five references in an annotated bibliography that will help support your story. Limit: 650 words.
Math Encounters is MoMath’s popular free public presentation series celebrating the spectacular world of mathematics, produced with support from the Simons Foundation.
Wednesday, January 6 at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm ET (New York)
December 2020
Be an Art Critic
Watch the Elements of Design video.
Then, critique a famous painting from this link using elements of design terms. Scroll down to view the paintings.
Explore & Write
Take a tour of The International Space Station. Then WRITE a story with the setting being The International Space Station. Your story can be any genre: realistic fiction, science fiction, poetry, graphic novel,...
Solve
Try this challenge: Toothpick Squares
Be sure to show your work using pictures, numbers, and words in an organized way.
November 2020
Cryptograms is a free puzzle game where the goal is to solve famous quotes! If you like interesting quotes and word puzzles, you will love Cryptograms!
Have fun with positive and negative numbers playing this nrich game!
Want to know about how Platypuses glow an eerie blue-green under ultraviolet light?
Explore you passions and interest by researching topics of your choosing on newsela!
October 2020
Make a Moon or Mars Rover Game
Create a Moon or Mars exploration game using Scratch, a visual programming language. Think like NASA space-mission planners to design your game!
What Smithsonian objects would Mary Ping put in her closet? Explore timeless silhouettes and ingenious tools to care for objects that inspire this influential designer. Questions are included throughout to guide discussion and reflection of design choices.
September 2020
“I’ve never thought of that!”
Use investigation and process of elimination to reveal what that statement is talking about.
It’s not a crossword. It’s not some extreme version of tic-tac-toe. So what is KENKEN? Simply put, it’s a grid-based numerical puzzle that uses the basic math operations—addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—while also challenging your logic and problem-solving skills.
