6th Grade Food For Thought Expo

Today, we celebrated the culmination of our sixth grade Food For Thought Unit with "A Taste of 447." The students worked tirelessly, branding local and seasonal restaurants by creating menus, business cards and signage. They individually contributed a recipe with a spotlight ingredient from our trip to the Greenmarket. 

Mangia:

NYC Fresh Diner:

Interesting International: 

Unique Sweets:

Pie Shack:

Brunch at One

Café Kid:

Bountiful Breakfast

Le Comet Cafe

Disco Diner:

Food Around the World:

Paco's Tacos

Universal:

Mangia Mangia:

Le Petit Café: 

6th Grade Food For Thought Speaker

Mirem Villamil, an MS447 parent and Garden Manager at Edible Schoolyard NYC, spoke to the sixth graders about urban farming practices.

7th Grade Landmarks Speaker

Julia Foulkes, an MS447 parent and landmarks historian at the New School University, visited seventh graders to discuss the landmarking process. The students were particularly interested in her discussion of 5 Pointz, a building that was formerly covered in graffiti art, in Long Island City. Because the building was never landmarked, the graffiti was whitewashed and the building is set for demolition. Condos will take the place of 5 Pointz.

 The seventh graders will continue to explore what buildings/ parks in NYC have earned the landmark designation and think about what should become landmarked.

8th Grade Magic and Perception

As an introduction to our unit on Perception, students learned and demonstrated magic tricks. With their tricks, they tried to trick the audience into perceiving something that actually wasn't happening.

8th Grade Brain Dissection

Today we launched the second eighth grade unit: Perception. Our unit essential question is: how does my mind work to help me perceive the world, and how does the media shape my perceptions of the world and my place in it? We will study psychology and critical media literacy to deepen our understanding of perception. During our first psychology lesson, we are dissecting sheep brains to gain an understanding of the anatomy of the brain.