Project Week: Covid Fashion Around the World
For her project week, Amber ’23 designed and made three dresses to donate to a charity fashion gala benefiting Mother’s Choice, an organization which supports children without families in Hong
Posts with Tag: Project Based Learning
Project Week: Ecological Census of Small Mammals
Project Week: Maleness & Masculinity
Project Week: Restoring Wildlife Through Gardening
Sarah ’17 establishes a new garden at Putney to cultivate indigenous wildlife, in partnership with Nayderson ’20.
Project Week: Partnering in Dance
Project Week: Cell Mural
Math: Meeting the Individual and Understanding the World
We devote lots of energy to studying how math is present and important in the world around us.
Building a Radio: Design & Electronics
Sacred Geometry in a Mural of Platonic Solids
Science Footprint: Force Vector Table @ The Putney School
The Putney School recently redesigned our graduation requirements in terms of a student’s skills and proficiencies in specific academic areas, rather than in traditional terms of “seat-time” in class. In addition to overarching educational through lines such as collaboration, literacy, and argumentation, each academic department has articulated skills and content particular to that discipline. These “footprint videos” are traces of the various projects, activities, and challenges Putney students navigate in the sciences as they learn the specific skills and knowledge required for graduation.
Science Footprint: Engineering & Fabrication of a Robotic Arm @ The Putney School
The Putney School recently redesigned our graduation requirements in terms of a student’s skills and proficiencies in specific academic areas, rather than in traditional terms of “seat-time” in class. In addition to overarching educational through lines such as collaboration, literacy, and argumentation, each academic department has articulated skills and content particular to that discipline. These “footprint videos” are traces of the various projects, activities, and challenges Putney students navigate in the sciences as they learn the specific skills and knowledge required for graduation.
Science Footprint: Collodion Plate Photography @ The Putney School
These “footprint videos” are traces of the various projects, activities, and challenges Putney students navigate in the sciences as they learn the specific skills and knowledge required for graduation.
Science Footprint: Consumption Display Posters @ The Putney School
The Putney School recently redesigned our graduation requirements in terms of a student’s skills and proficiencies in specific academic areas, rather than in traditional terms of “seat-time” in class. In addition to overarching educational through lines such as collaboration, literacy, and argumentation, each academic department has articulated skills and content particular to that discipline. These “footprint videos” are traces of the various projects, activities, and challenges Putney students navigate in the sciences as they learn the specific skills and knowledge required for graduation.
Science Footprint: Designing & Building a Telescope @ The Putney School
The Putney School recently redesigned our graduation requirements in terms of a student’s skills and proficiencies in specific academic areas, rather than in traditional terms of “seat-time” in class. In addition to overarching educational through lines such as collaboration, literacy, and argumentation, each academic department has articulated skills and content particular to that discipline. These “footprint videos” are traces of the various projects, activities, and challenges Putney students navigate in the sciences as they learn the specific skills and knowledge required for graduation.
Farm-Based Education at The Putney School
The Putney School Now
Putney is all about students chasing their intellectual curiosities, forging connections, and working with adults to help this place run and evolve. We asked three questions: What are you most excited to be learning these days? What has surprised you about Putney? How have you enjoyed contributing to this community?
Surveying Bio-Diversity
We believe that knowledge only gains power from being applied and extended. The Putney School has led the movement in project-based learning and integrated academics through our semi-annual Project Weeks. Over 9 days, students propose and work with faculty mentors to carry out individual projects related to their academic coursework.
Heating and Cooling Systems of the Net-Zero Field House
We believe that knowledge only gains power from being applied and extended. The Putney School has led the movement in project-based learning and integrated academics through our semi-annual Project Weeks. Over 9 days, students propose and work with faculty mentors to carry out individual projects related to their academic coursework.
Project Week: Gender Neutral Signage
We believe that knowledge only gains power from being applied and extended. The Putney School has led the movement in project-based learning and integrated academics through our semi-annual Project Weeks. Over 9 days, students propose and work with faculty mentors to carry out individual projects related to their academic coursework.
3-D Design and Printing a Custom Qwerty Keyboard
We believe that knowledge only gains power from being applied and extended. The Putney School has led the movement in project-based learning and integrated academics through our semi-annual Project Weeks. Over 9 days, students propose and work with faculty mentors to carry out individual projects related to their academic coursework.
Fashion Design and Brand Development for Creative Entrepreneurship
We believe that knowledge only gains power from being applied and extended. The Putney School has led the movement in project-based learning and integrated academics through our semi-annual Project Weeks. Over 9 days, students propose and work with faculty mentors to carry out individual projects related to their academic coursework.
Humans in the Natural World: An Integrated Curriculum
Humans in the Natural World is a year-long, three-credit course for all 9th Graders at The Putney School, integrating English, Science, and History.