science

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 grade students in Elizabeth McGann’s science class have been participating in a project called River City.
The project is a product of Harvard University researchers (led by Beaver parent Chris Dede) which looks at the effect online Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVE) have on educational outcomes.
As visitors to River City, students travel back in time, bringing [...]

As you walk through the exhibit space in the science wing these days you’ll come face-to-face with critters of the deep. They’re not real of course, but rather the creations of eighth grade science students.
During a unit on oceanography, each student chose a sea-dwelling phylum from the animal kingdom to research. They were responsible for [...]

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 [...]

As we posted in January, Beaver’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.