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Seventh Graders Research Immigration Stories

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 [...]

Cultural Heritage Project Gets Underway

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 [...]

The Biggest Dig Begins

The sixth edition of the sixth grade Biggest Dig project is underway. This is the signature event of the sixth grade year at Beaver (and, oh yeah, it takes six weeks to complete). Students have been assigned a year from as far back as 17,000 years ago up to 2009. Each year comes with a [...]