December 3, 2020
Count the sparks! ZAP! ZAP! ZAP!
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Category: Intermediate English Fun
August 5, 2020
We’re reading “Nick and Tesla’s Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove” and have completed distribution of all our maker kits!
We've been reading Nick and Tesla’s Super Cyborg Gadget Glove with some of our classes virtually every year since the first copies of the book →
November 19, 2018
Is that penne rigate or chifferi rigate? Pasta classification with a dichotomous key!
We're pleased to have shepherded another cohort of potential future scientists through a reading of Sy Montgomery's The Octopus Scientists
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January 15, 2018
Congratulations, Teresa!
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January 17, 2017
Is your octopus a boy or a girl? Here’s what you need to know to figure it out!
We've just finished our reading of The Octopus Scientists. Before diving into our next book, we gave our students a chance to put some of the information →
January 10, 2017
Is the pasta a hollow tube? Using a dichotomous key to classify pieces of pasta.
1. Is the pasta a hollow tube? If so, go to #2. If not, go to #4.
2. Is the pasta straight? If so, it’s penne rigate. If not, go to #3.
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August 17, 2016
Laserhand. Laserhand. Does the cool stuff a laser can!
Hello there! Here inside our workshop deep within Accella's secret lair, we're about to launch into further preparations for this week's hands-on learning →
April 15, 2016
They’re not like other wasps…
Kenneth Oppel's The Nest is a rare sort of book indeed — a children's psychological horror novel that manages to build and sustain suspense for its →
January 28, 2012
Chicken korma, perhaps, and a few crunchy poppadoms too ! (on reading Grk Smells a Rat)
Above, you can see OliverH enjoying the flavorful crunch of his poppadom. We've been reading Grk Smells a Rat in some of our classes and had reached →
April 27, 2011
Aren’t we all, in some way, lost things?
After we read Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia in class, a copy of another book by the same author seemed like a fitting reward for the student →
August 2, 2010
Little Nicholas (Le Petit Nicolas)
Above, you can see CharlotteY reading her copy of Nicholas on Vacation, an amusing and delightfully subversive book that has managed to elicit loud →
June 24, 2010
Secret Father’s Day messages
In our Intermediate English Fun class, we've been reading one of Michele Torrey's excellent Doyle & Fossey: Science Detectives books, The Case →