Tag: 8th grade

Check out these tiny houses designed by 8th grade colab students! To begin, 8th graders learned about the tiny-house movement and the benefits of using less space and finite resources. They imagined novel spaces under 400 square feet that would…

Annual overnight trips are one of the ways that we build community in middle school, and experience the world outside of our school walls. 🏞️ While in Yosemite, 8th graders were encouraged to engage with nature using all of their…

Prospect Sierra 7th and 8th grade engineers blew us away at this year’s @KidWind_Project NorCal Challenge at @calmaritime! They won 1st place gold, placing at the top of the middle school teams and outscoring all but one high school team! 🥇 The students'…

8th graders spent a memorable day fostering new and long-standing Prospect Sierra partnerships during their capstone service visits to 7 local sites this month! Students learned how these orgs are making an impact on their communities while supporting their operations…

Hammerhead sharks. Capybaras. Narwhals. How did these fascinating species come to be? Throughout the fall, students explore biological evolution in 8th grade science. The second half of this unit focuses on how individual species change through the process of natural…

8th grade colab students recently undertook an ambitious challenge: to build a wooden music box! This project entailed conceiving of and executing several components: an instrument with multiple playable keys, a revolving crank mechanism to automate a melody of the…

Behold: kindergarten and 8th grade buddy time. These special moments of connection and joy are what we live for! 🌤️

The Coastal Forests unit focuses on one of the important ecosystems we find here in Northern California. 8th grade scientists study tree and animal species and the relationships between them. They also learn about abiotic (nonliving factors) and Indigenous Californian…