Active Learning
We love hands-on, messy experiences (best part: it's not at your house)
Can you give me some examples of the learning that takes place during an SCC day?
- Partaking in a medieval feast
–Nailing Martin Luther’s 95 Theses to a door and discussing their importance
–Studying, designing, building, and launching rockets
–Assembling a jumbo periodic table correctly
-Painting a mural of tidepools
–Acting out scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth
–Creating a 3-D model of a salt molecule
–Reenactments of the first Passover and the crossing of the Red Sea
– “Sailing” a Phoenician ship, establishing colonies, and trading goods
–Following Daedalus’s magic yarn through the Labyrinth to fight the Minotaur
–Discussion of the Crusades, wrongful actions within and outside of Christianity
–Creating a journal from the point of view of Marco Polo on his travels
-Holding a sample of the element Gallium
–Examining cells through microscopes
–Sketching the systems of the human body
–Lively discussions about Anna Karenina
–Learning about and practicing Lectio Divina and Examen
–Dissecting frogs (!), dissecting sheep eyeballs (!!), and mummifying chickens (!!!)
–Comparing biographies from a wide variety of voices, times, and places