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Ranney Hosts NJAIS STEAM Workshop

Ranney School hosted a STEAM Workshop with the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools (NJAIS) on October 20, 2016.

“It was an honor to have NJAIS and member schools visit Ranney to share in important roundtable discussions that are happening in all of our schools,” said Assistant Head of School for Academics Patricia Marshall. “For independent schools, STEAM education is at the forefront of curriculum development and academic enrichment. Having faculty come from schools such as Kent Place, Lawrenceville, Oak Hill, Morristown-Beard, Newgrange, Pingry, Princeton Academy, and Rumson Country Day provided opportunities for us to learn from peers while also sharing with them the exciting things our faculty and students are doing at Ranney School.”
 
Ranney’s Building STEAM program integrates collaborative and cross-disciplinary project-based learning across science, technology, engineering, art, mathematics, and more. For example, in a recent STEAM project, fourth-and fifth-graders worked with Upper School students in the chemistry lab to create dye harvested from flowers that they planted in the campus garden last spring. Lower School students had a great time crushing up the flower petals inside a mortar bowl and boiling them in Bunsen burners with the help of their Upper School scientist peers. After letting their mixtures sit for a week, students then used the extracted color to make a thick dye which was turned over to art classes for the final stage of the project—using dye as paint. 

Through STEAM programs like this, children are learning to problem solve and take risks in a nurturing environment. Ranney's two new Innovation Labs are furthering STEAM efforts by providing dedicated spaces for Design Thinking, a creative and iterative process that enables students at all grade levels to generate ideas and design solutions through collaborative, as well as independent, prototyping, testing, and building. Recent innovations have included popcorn containers and paper blenders. 

In February 2017, Ranney is hosting a second NJAIS program for faculty focused solely on Design Thinking.

Read more about Ranney School's Building STEAM efforts.
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