by Darsa Morrow | Mar 16, 2016 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
Children are born natural scientists with an insatiable thirst for information. The evidence of this is abundant from infancy to age three where exploration often involves tasting or touching just about everything; this is expanded upon by the ages of inquiry where...
by Darsa Morrow | Apr 8, 2015 | News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
Mackintosh Academy is excited to announce its partnership with Ball Aerospace to celebrate 25 years of the Hubble Space Telescope through public lectures, stargazing and hands-on student learning experiences. For 25 years the Hubble Space Telescope has been...
by Darsa Morrow | Feb 22, 2015 | Growing Learners, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
I miraculously remained motionless as an enormous dirt-colored spider lumbered across the open notebook in my lap; its jointed legs and numerous eyes and what looked like giant jaws were extra startling against the white paper. But although it felt like an invading...
by Sharon Muench | Feb 22, 2015 | International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds
*Bold words are IB Learning Profile and (PYP) attitudes, characteristics all within the IB community value and strive toward developing. The International Baccalaureate (IB) curricular framework encourages interdisciplinary planning. Science and technology...
by Gia Medeiros | Nov 10, 2013 | Community, Global Action, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Student Work
Inspiration strikes in the strangest places. Boulder’s observation beehive started with a conversation at a farmer’s market… Here’s the story from Jenny Bolch, Mack Boulder’s amazing first grade teacher: I met a man at a farmer’s...