As the Capstone Experience for our third year students, we began the Narragansett Bay study with an introduction to its physical characteristics and inhabitants. Students spent the first several months of the study learning about salinity and density, collecting fish and invertebrates for the classroom tank with a minnow trap, studying plankton, and learning the food […]
Read More“The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.” Maria Montessori As parents are introduced to Quest, and to the core tenants of Montessori education, we are often asked, “what is practical […]
Read MoreMiddle school students have spent the last several weeks in science studying buoyancy, density, Archimedes’ Principle, pressure, and boat design. During a Fall visit to the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, students watched real footage from some of their Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), which are used to explore deeper, unexplored areas that are impractical to […]
Read More“…but I know happiness does not come with things. It can come from work and pride in what you do.” ~ Ghandi
Read MoreWelcome to the Middle School Newsletter! In math, we have some exciting things to tell you about, we have started work with scaling. But we are not just doing plain old math, no, no, no. We are scaling items that we got to pick out! For instance, a student could choose a comic, a wrapper, […]
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