middle school

Boston’s North End is known for its food — specifically its Italian food. But, as Beaver’s sixth grade class discovered,  the community is much more than that.
Recently the class visited the North End as part of its study of immigration, assimilation, and immersion in American culture. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the North End [...]

The seventh grade concluded a six-week long project on immigration with the Cultural Heritage Project (CHP) Festival on May 19.  A capstone project in the grade’s U.S. history curriculum, the CHP challenges each student to research a country, focusing on why and how its people emigrated to the U.S.  (Many students choose countries of their family’s [...]

Students in Lynn Bastoni’s seventh grade science class have put away the old pH testing strips that many of us are familiar with in favor of high-tech pH probes.
During their study of acidity and basicity, students filled a beaker with water and slowly added lemon juice. A probe connected to students’ computers was inserted into [...]

Seventh graders have begun working on the culminating project of their school year, the Cultural Heritage Project (CHP), and they are using a wiki to keep themselves organized.
Students are asked to choose a country and a culture to explore then research the reasons that people from that culture came to America. Were the pushed out [...]

A trend in Hollywood has been to take classic movies, plays, or comic books and modernize them to appeal to a new generation. That trend has made its way to an eighth grade English class at Beaver.
After reading Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, students in Kathleen Kosberg’s class were asked to think about a movie version [...]