Laurel Springs School is celebrating Earth Month with the help of Science Department Chair Ellen Doyle. Check our Facebook page for special posts throughout the month of April. The more carbon dioxide there is in the air, the greater the atmosphere’s ability to hold heat. Scientists believe that the increasing levels are causing climate change…
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Earth Month at Laurel Springs School
April is Earth Month! Join the Laurel Springs School and Science Department Chair Ellen Doyle on Facebook, where we will share information and ideas about how we can take better care of our planet. Please note that the Laurel Springs Facebook page is public and students do not need to have a Facebook account in…
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Help NASA Choose the Next Space Suit!
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) needs your help select a next-generation space suit. A team of engineers designed these suits, but NASA wants you to vote on which design is best. Let’s meet a space suit designer. Yes, that is really her job title! Amy Ross is a NASA engineer. It is…
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Pi Day at Laurel Springs School
What’s Pi Day? It’s the celebration of this special number, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is sometimes abbreviated as 3.14, hence the chosen date of March 14th as International Pi Day. (Pi Day is also Albert Einstein’s birthday.) However, pi has been calculated to over one trillion digits beyond…
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Enriche Your Transcript with Advanced Placement Courses
Were you engrossed in politics this year? Do you find yourself reading news articles about the economy? Are you fascinated by human behavior? If you’d like to explore new interests or deepen your understanding of a concept, Advanced Placement courses are a great way to do that while enriching your college application and high school…
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Laurel Springs Welcomes Expert in Natural Resource Management
Karol Boudreaux Speaks at Laurel Springs Symposium Laurel Springs School welcomes Karol Boudreaux as the January speaker in our series of symposia, “Meetings with Remarkable Men & Women.” Ms. Boudreaux is the Africa Land Tenure Specialist in the Land Tenure and Property Rights Division at USAID. Her work supports improvements to the land tenure and…
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Laurel Springs Sponsors Environmental Education at Captain Planet Benefit
Environmental Stewardship at Laurel Springs As part of a continued commitment to environmental education, Laurel Springs School will participate in the Captain Planet Foundation’s Annual Benefit Gala on December 7, 2012. This year’s event will honor Sir Richard Branson and President Jimmy Carter with awards for their outstanding environmental stewardship. Laurel Springs School founder, Marilyn…
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Costa Rica Global Student Leaders Summit
Student Summit in Costa Rica Laurel Springs students who are enrolled full-time in grades 9 to 12 have the opportunity to attend an Earth Day Conference in beautiful Costa Rica as part of the Global Student Leaders Summit program. The nine-day program will include a guided ecological tour, and all participants will be part of…
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Curious about Mars?
The 21st Century Tools blog provides resources for online learning from LSS Books like Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds stoked fears about what life forms could exist on the neighboring planet of Mars. Comic books and movies continued the theme of questioning whether Martians (if they existed)…
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Casey Ross – Online Teaching Experience
Casey Ross Brings Robust Online Teaching Experience to Laurel Springs Casey Ross is a veteran teacher in every sense of the word. She has over ten years of experience teaching in brick and mortar classrooms, and ten more years of online teaching experience. She has worked in curriculum development, as an education advocate, and serves…
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