Insights Week Takes Students Beyond Classroom Walls

Insights courses have concluded, but the experiences will be long remembered by Middle School students.

Students in Cleveland 2.0 explored the question, “Why is urban redevelopment cool, and why should I care?” They visited new neighborhoods, met agents of change and felt the excitement that accompanies a neighborhood’s redevelopment. From coffee shops to community development organizations, students saw first-hand that passion, dynamic individuals and a willingness to invest in a community can make an impact.

Students learned about cryptography, cryptology and cryptanalysis in Cracking the Code. In addition to cracking various ciphers (algorithms for performing encryption or decryption), they made their own scytales (tools used to perform a cipher), Jefferson cipher wheels and invisible messages. Students traveled to the Western Reserve Historical Society and got their hands on rare artifacts related to the Wade family and Western Union Telegraph company. They also walked through Lake View Cemetery to practice deciphering the symbolism of monuments.

In A River Runs Through It, students took an experiential look at the Steelhead fisheries of Northeast Ohio. They explored the Lake Erie Steelhead through its life cycle, behaviors and habitat, and as a sport fish. In addition to learning how to make various flies and casts on campus, they also ventured to a Steel head hatchery and the Chagrin River.

In the MakerSPACE elective, students used the design process and FabLab technologies as vehicles to problem-solve and learn about outer space while gaining skills in basic coding, circuits and operating FabLab equipment. invest in a community can make an impact. They visited NASA Plum Brook Station in Sandusky to learn about the mechanical side of NASA equipment and spacecraft; went inside the world’s largest vacuum chamber, where all equipment is tested before launching to space; and learned about deep-space communication using lasers and dot codes. 
Back
An independent, coeducational, college preparatory day school, toddler through grade 12

Early Childhood, Lower, and Middle Schools, 5000 Clubside Rd, Lyndhurst, OH 44124
Birchwood School of Hawken, 4400 West 140th Street, Cleveland, OH 44135 

Upper School, PO Box 8002 (12465 County Line Rd), Gates Mills, OH 44040
Mastery School of Hawken, 11025 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106

Gries Center, 10823 Magnolia Dr, Cleveland, OH 44106

Directions  |  Log in  |  440-423-4446