Student Work

Students today come with a cell phone attached to their hip, a laptop computer in their bag, and a video game console on their dresser. So it’s a little surprising to poke your head into a middle school classroom and see students with yarn and knitting needles creating scarfs, socks, and hats.
But that’s exactly what’s [...]

Inspired by the recent Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Beaver’s chamber music director Joanna Goldstein devised a novel way to challenge her upper school student-musicians to “reach for the gold.” Ms. Goldstein turned the group’s annual House Concert into the “Chamber Olympics,” complete with professional judges and gold, silver and bronze medals for the participants at [...]

Final exams usually conjure up images of students sitting at their desks, pencils in hand, darkening bubbles or writing in a blue book. Students in Melissa Catarra’s 10th grade U.S. history course were instead given a final assignment which asked them to examine the events they studied from different perspectives.
Here is one part of the [...]

Students in the Latin American Art, Music, and Dance course recently were assigned a project choose a Latin American artist and represent that artist’s work in some way. One group chose to produce a video about Ecuadorian artist Ramon Piaguaje.

Guest post by Upper School science teacher Jennifer DesRochers
Dissections are something that make most people go “Yuck!”. When I was in high school, our biology teacher had us dissect a worm and a frog. I was fine with the worm, having gone fishing many times, but I could not bring myself to cut into an [...]