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		<title>Scenes From Knitting Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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&#8217;s exactly what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musicians Compete in Chamber Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the recent Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Beaver&#8217;s chamber music director Joanna Goldstein devised a novel way to challenge her upper school student-musicians to &#8220;reach for the gold.&#8221; Ms. Goldstein turned the group&#8217;s annual House Concert into the &#8220;Chamber Olympics,&#8221; complete with professional judges and gold, silver and bronze medals for the participants at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. History Online Textbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Students Study Latin American Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students in the Latin American Art, Music, and Dance course recently were assigned a project choose a Latin American artist and represent that artist&#8217;s work in some way. One group chose to produce a video about Ecuadorian artist Ramon Piaguaje.

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		<title>Dogfish Science Lab</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robot Begins to Take Shape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we posted in January, Beaver&#8217;s robotics team is competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition. They are coming to the end of the six weeks they had for designing, building, and designing the robot.
We stopped in and snapped some photos of the team hard at work. You can see more pictures in the Flickr gallery.
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		<title>Students Skype With Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students in the upper school history elective “Political and Social Changes” held a Skype discussion with four Israeli students and their teacher on February 11. The Israeli group is from the Ironi Hey High School in Haifa, a public high school enrolling 1600 students from grades 7 to 12.
Organized by Beaver’s Kader Adjout (Global History [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google SketchUp in Calculus Class</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Math teacher Rob MacDonald and his advanced calculus class turned to architectural design to help them with calculus concepts. Mr. MacDonald describes the project:
Students were asked to design a small house and were given constraints about area and volume. In order to calculate areas and volumes precisely, they used calculus; they took integrals of the functions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion 47 &#8211; Episode 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is! The final episode of Fashion 47 is now posted. Don&#8217;t forget the live on-stage finale will take place on Thursday, February 11 at 12:15 and 7:30 p.m. in the Black Box Theater.

You can view past episodes here:

Episode 1
Episode 2

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		<title>Heliconian Coffee House a Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Guest post by Buzz Haverty &#8216;10
Beaver’s literary and art journal, the Heliconian, hosted its first Coffee House this month. Students, parents, alumni and faculty alike all gathered in the Rogers Room for a fun night of readings and musical performances.
The Coffee House is an ever-expanding tradition in Beaver’s great creative culture, bringing more students together [...]]]></description>
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