{"id":175,"date":"2017-03-30T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/?p=175"},"modified":"2017-04-03T17:35:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T17:35:34","slug":"middle-schoolers-dive-in-to-five-college-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/2017\/03\/30\/middle-schoolers-dive-in-to-five-college-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Schoolers Dive in to Five College Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A lararium at the Smith College Museum of Art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recent field trips sent seventh and eighth graders to area colleges to expand on work they were doing in the classroom.<\/p>\n

Will Eberle\u2019s eighth grade Latin class visited Mount Holyoke College’s museum to explore its collection of statues of Roman Lares (household gods).<\/p>\n

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Students designed their own Lares and lararium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The quotation from Cicero reads, \u201cThe most sacred, the most hallowed place on earth is the home of each and every citizen. There are his sacred hearth and his household gods, there the very center of his worship, religion, and domestic ritual.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back in the classroom, students went on to create their own Lares and a shrine for them, called a lararium.<\/p>\n

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Middle School students study fitness data.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All 70 Middle Schoolers traveled to the biomechanics lab at the University of Massachusetts recently to participate in a fitness study with UMass faculty and graduate students. Williston students were actively involved in generating, collecting, and analyzing data that scientists will use to refine our understanding of exercise and health.<\/p>\n

\u201cKinesiology is an interdisciplinary field of study that allowed the students to see real science in action where biology, chemistry, and physics come together to investigate nature and find solutions to problems,\u201d said science teacher Jane Lucia. \u201cWe could see and feel from the folks there that science is creative and collaborative, and fun!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"51240444865__77ACBD36-A85B-46F7-A51F-FB34A9FEC9FF.JPG\"Ms. Lucia\u00a0continued, \u201cThe uses of technology were eye-opening. From the special eye visors in the military lab to the life size virtual human cadaver in the anatomy and physiology lab, students experienced how embedded and valuable technology is to the advancement of ideas toward useful applications.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students from the Middle School also recently participated in Classics Day at Mount Holyoke College. Read about that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recent field trips sent seventh and eighth graders to area colleges to expand on work they were doing in the classroom. Will Eberle\u2019s eighth grade Latin class visited Mount Holyoke College’s museum to explore its collection of statues of Roman Lares (household gods). The quotation from Cicero reads, \u201cThe most sacred, the most hallowed place … Continue reading Middle Schoolers Dive in to Five College Opportunities<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/academic-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}