[ad#cor1]
[ad#cor1]
The Volvo Ocean Race, an international sailing competition, has become an exciting subject of study for seventh and eighth grade students at Lawn Middle School. Team teachers Nick Alfred, math, Kristen DeSantis and Dawn Huff, language arts and reading, Jim Kaczynski, science, Maureen McGuirl, history, and Michaela Onosko, Spanish, combined resources to present a weeklong interdisciplinary learning unit focused on the race.
The team was first approached by the director of Sail Newport, Brad Read, whose brother Ken is participating in the race as skipper of the Puma racing team. He had a race-based curriculum already being used in two private schools in Newport and Lawn school teachers agreed to a utilize a modified racebased curriculum for Jamestown’s seventh and eighth graders. According to the team teachers…Â Details
[ad#cor1]
Surfing prodigy Lakey Peterson will wear the red, white and blue this year at the ISA World Junior Surfing Championships, the premier youth surfing event in the world, in Ecuador on March 29 through April 3. Though just 14, the blond grom from Montecito surfs with the under 18 girls division as the youngest member of the four-girl U.S.A. team…. Details