| Lower School Theme Brainstorming |
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| Themes are a primary way through which we tie together different curricular areas |
| Each year, staff choose a broad them for study by the entire Lower School. Themes alternate yearly between a science and a social studies emphasis, however staff also seek themes that will lend themselves to integration throughout the curriculum and that appeal to the spectrum of ages we serve. Below is an example of this brainstorming process on the theme of flight. |
| I Art |
- butterfly patterns
- design/paint aircraft
- dragons
- birds
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| II Language Arts |
- report writing
- research
- recording field data
- poetry
- indexing
- Flights of Fancy
- Pegasus
- Daedelus/Icarus
- dragons
- fairies
- angels
- David and the Phoenix
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| III Math/Logic |
- flight distance, hang time
- air speed
- measuring materials for flight construction projects
- drawing plasn to scale
- averages
- balloon ballast (grams)
- estimation/prediction
- bird count
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| IV Movement |
- butterfly flight patterns
- paper airplane flight paths
- bird walks
- wings
- flight trials
- flapping laps
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| V Music |
- wind chimes
- songs about flight (I Believe I Can Fly, Beautifil Balloon, etc)
- Icarus project
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| VI Outside Resources |
- falconer
- storytellers
- entomologists
- balloonist
- pilot
- remote controlled planes
- airports
- bat specialist
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| VII Science/Nature |
- animal/insect flight
- floating
- aerodynamics
- Bernoulli effect
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