How did elementary school students discover the sine, cosine and tangent? by Daniel Wolf-Root We live on a sphere (more or less), my students told me. If that’s the case, then how do we find the distance between two points on a sphere? After many students discovered a method for doing this along the surface of a sphere, Ryan […]
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First-Year Japanese
How did Secondary Division students play their way to learning a new language? by Junko Hosoi From Nina Gabelko: Junko Hosoi, long-time sensei of ATDP’s First-Year Japanese and architect of our current Japanese language and culture program, continually amazes me with the joyfulness of her teaching. Her approach to instruction comes under the rubric of […]
Read More →Cognitive Neuroscience
How did high school students unlock the mysteries of the brain? by Paul Bulakowski Summer 2011 was the fourth continuous year ATDP has offered a neuroscience class, and the course has evolved and adapted each year to new knowledge as it develops. I proposed and developed the course as a means of mentoring advanced ATDP […]
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As high as expectations are at ATDP, students and teachers frequently exceed them. Take an inside look at excellent student work in four ATDP courses.
Read More →How Did They Do That?
As high as expectations are at ATDP, students and teachers frequently exceed them. Take an inside look at excellent student work in four ATDP courses.
Read More →How Did They Do That?
As high as expectations are at ATDP, students and teachers frequently exceed them. Take an inside look at excellent student work in four ATDP courses.
Read More →SD Classes Jumping for Joy (Summer 2009)
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Human Anatomy & Physiology (ED) Patty Holman and Paul Bruno We got up extra early one morning to pick up our specimens for the day: sheep hearts. Getting up early is never fun, but this time it was completely worth it. A couple of hours later the hearts were in the hands of be-gloved and […]
Read More →AP Art History at ATDP
by Laura Shefler, Instructor s the call to prayer echoed within the walls, a hand-held camera glided down one aisle of the great hall of the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, then panned left, revealing key features of Islamic architecture: the ornately carved marble pulpit, known as a minbar, and a tiled mihrab, one the niches […]
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