6th Grade Active Learning

Here are a few photos of student active learning throughout Piedmont. I don't remember having so much variety and choice in my day!

Check out this magical world and cute math road dragon from Ms. Delery's class. I never got to use graph paper like this in math!

Based on her unique costume, it looks like they are cleaning up from something I'd like to have attended!

Drama students performing their self-written and self-staged productions. Small on props, big on effect!

Just another language arts day for the engineers and builders at Piedmont.

Mr. Egnot's students get to build industrial revolution inventions in class then deliver a sales pitch to their classmates. All I got to do in social studies was memorize each president's nickname : (

Mr. Parkins mediates this live action battle. Note the use of BYOT in the fight- that's a civil war image on her phone!

"Judge" Frilot presides over the trial in Mr. George's room.

Who says active learning doesn't mean you can't also chill in the reading nook?

7th grade students get to make use of the sunny curved alcove overlooking the courtyard as they practice their language arts assignment.

History Day winner Brianna takes down her first place project for transport to the next phase of the competition (with a little help from her brother)

That blur you see in the background is a sixth grader trying to make deadline for the "Create an App" contest! The foreground is the balsa wood bridge they re building. Building apps in language class and bridges in math class, when will the authentic learning ever stop? At Piedmont, the answer is never!

Honors art students take a field trip to the hallway gallery to view and appreciate the work of their fellow Piedmont Kandinsky-s.

These boys are focused on creating the bookmarks for the English project with Ms. Frilot's guest speakers!

Don't worry, that black eye is a fake for this student's role in Mr. Milligan's mock trial!

Students in Ms. Madan's Spanish class say you can never have too many devices out when it's time to plan the project!

Even when the wifi fails yet again, these students can keep a sense of humor about them and move on!

Ms. Lyttle's students hanging T-shirts made by their classmates for their novel project.

Students in Ms. Gormans and Suckstorff's math club love STEM by turning themselves into a giant K'nex birthday present!

Ms. Delaney beams with pride while reading in the papers about our famous alumni off to play in NCAA- Go Jeremy, Aerris, and Akil!

This sixth graer knows how to bring Greek mythology into the 21st century for Mr. Davis' class. Check out Poseidon!

Sixth graders make decorations for the "100 Stems" party in honor of learning 100 prefixes, roots, and stems that give them such wonderful vocabularies!

Is your classmate absent? No problem, you can still rehearse the scene via video conference as these students are doing in Ms. Mcleod's class with their BYOT device!

Mr. Miller's students know he cares for them as they work on building their science models.

Students help each other tie on their armbands for a classroom simulation designed by Mr. Joyce.