Montford North Star Academy, Projects
Drawing from resources made available by the Buck Institute for Education, Edutopia, and from our own experience facilitating inquiry-driven learning at MNSA and at Vance Elementary, we put together an action-packed introduction to PBL. It was exciting to watch light...
Projects, Vance Elementary School of Ecology
Here’s a peek at what’s germinating… First grade started their unit on the properties of soil and how different materials from the earth are useful. Using math, they will experiment making their own bricks. They will look at the Cob Shed and identify...
Projects, Verner Center for Early Learning
May is planting time for summer veggies. Students have sown seeds and planted starts of lettuce, kale, onions, tomatoes, basil, sunflowers, okra, cowpeas, squash, and gourds. The strawberries have been coming in! We gathered both garden strawberries and the fruits of...
Projects, Vance Elementary School of Ecology
First graders rounded out their year-long mint project/economics unit with a trip to the French Broad Chocolate Lounge. And what a treat that was! Students learned more about the cacao tree and how the seeds inside get turned into that delicious chocolatey goodness....
Montford North Star Academy, Projects
This month sees the completion of the first Pollinator Garden at MNSA and the planting of a number of flower beds around the campus. The pollinator project provided valuable experience for our initial year with the school. Led by Ms. Shannon Baggett, the MNSA team,...
Montford North Star Academy, Projects, Volunteer
Wonderful news this month! The Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Buncombe County awarded a grant which will cover the cost of all our plant materials for the student-designed pollinator garden. The “To Bee or Not To Bee” project at MNSA is...
