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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, by Karen Mills and Michael Cruz

By Jennifer Cross On January 5, 2012 · Add Comment

Last year, Karen and I realized we that we shared an affinity for How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, a well-known and well-respected book in parenting circles. I was introduced to the book by my sister, a preschool teacher, and Karen had [...]

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Our New Course Evolution of Society

On July 31, 2011 By Jonathan Briggs

Here’s the tough thing about working at Eastside Prep. Your ideas can become reality (and your responsibility) with lightning speed – here’s my latest instance of an idea gone wild…

Through a variety of conversations – many sparked by TED talks – a few of us got to thinking that the [...]

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Protected: Catching up

On July 31, 2011 By Chuck Henry
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6th Grade Rube Goldberg Blog Entry #4

On June 6, 2011 By Katie Dodd

Giana

hello! today we finished building the project now its just a matter of getting my cat to hit the zuzu pet to start the project.

 

Nathan

Alright, so now I really am done! Filming was tougher than I thought it would be because it was the first time I [...]

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Rube Goldberg Blog Entry #3

On May 31, 2011 By Katie Dodd

Nathan

Alright, so I’ve almost completed my Rube Goldberg now (I’m sure we all have). Recently I added the robosapien: I used the “program” feature on his remote to make him push down a train, which in turn will trigger a switch to turn on the boiling pot of water. Originally I was [...]

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Protected: Building a public bathroom May 25

On May 29, 2011 By Chuck Henry
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6th Grade Rube Goldberg Project Week 2

On May 16, 2011 By Katie Dodd

Nathan

This week I haven’t had much work time because I am busy, but even then I am almost done. I decided that having a cannon shoot the ball down the chute would be challenging, so I decided to have a weight fall down and knock it down instead. To make the weight [...]

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Protected: Lashkar Gah – May 13

On May 14, 2011 By Chuck Henry
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Learning By Dissecting

On May 10, 2011 By Tobias Tillemans

Middle school science students at EPS are learning by dissecting, wherever their curiosity takes them.

The students, armed with enough knowledge to know what the internal parts of a heart look like and how they could be accessed, are designing their own sheep heart dissection lab, with the goal of identifying all of the parts [...]

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6th Grade Rube Goldberg Blog Entry #1

On May 9, 2011 By Katie Dodd

The 6th Graders at Eastside Prep are working on Rube Goldberg machines and tracking their design and construction process through this blog at EvolutionOfInstruction.org. We’re looking forward to seeing how they use the principles of science to accomplish tasks in innovative (though certainly not efficient) ways. Give them help, ask [...]

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