Bridgewater Junior High students have important work to do before they break for summer.
Vice Principal Diane Spencer says three super projects will give them hands-on, team building experience that also benefits the community.
“In June, junior high school students are looking for some energizing and looking for another way to be engaged in their schoolwork. And their traditional classroom stuff gets a little tired.”
The challenge to combat that fatigue fell to math teacher Ambroise Bazot who developed the three projects.
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An eight foot tall art installation will be built by the grade sevens, grade eights are creating a greenhouse from recycled pop bottles, and grade nine students will construct three dimensional animals from cardboard.
Spencer says the projects will mimic a workplace environment.
She says the school is responding to what community and businesses are saying.
“The academic skills are great, but kids also have to be able to work together and solve problems, come up with solutions if something doesn’t go exactly right.”
Spencer says once completed, the projects will find new homes in the community.
The greenhouse has already been spoken for and will be going to a local daycare.
Work gets underway Monday June 18 and the public will see the results June 27.
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— Ed Halverson (@edwardhalverson) June 12, 2018
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