How is a flower's pigment related to the amount of light it refracts? Are fingerprints inherited? What's the effect of a diver's sunscreen on coral in the Great Barrier Reef?

These and more than two hundred other initial questions have spurred OES students to create hypotheses, design experiments, conduct research, and collect data in the name of scientific exploration since the beginning of the school year.

Their findings were on display in a grand fashion at SPARC this week through the annual Aardvark Science Expo. The new Middle School feedback forum enabled students from the classes of '20, '21, and '22 to dialogue about projects in progress, while the Upper School competition saw our intrepid scientists defending their work to judges with aplomb. 

Stay tuned for a list of the winners, and well done to all students who participated! 

Upon walking into class over the last few weeks, C.T. Henry's senior economics students have transformed. No longer mild-mannered Upper Schoolers, instead they've become. . .

 

. . .manufacturers, laborers, and farmers. 

The best way to study something, as Mrs. Tharp's Pre-Kindergarteners recently proved, is more than one way.

Starting with student-generated thoughts and questions about blood and bodies, the Pre-K class then used a wide variety of tools in their art studio to study the lungs, heart, and brain. 

This included making models of blood using items in mason jars, manipulating different materials like string and rocks in a collage to represent various organs, and discussing the ways in which the things inside of us work in harmony.

Treat yourself to the larger photo gallery of the students' work; we bet your heart will be touched by what they had to say about theirs.