An eighth grade special project that teaches food preparation and serves breakfast on Tuesdays for Staff in a Cafe Setting . Students learn first hand the skills and responsibilities of running a business. A second program provides 6th graders, who design and make chocolate candies with an opportunity to raise monies for charity. This program is tied to the math curriculum and the standards. This program uses the systems model to improve thinking.
Students use laptop computers to explore and solve problems.
This program has a large literacy component. Working with 30 eighth grade students both male and female, students are introduced to modeling as a vehicle for building self-esteem and etiquette as preparation for the real world. A science curriculum recommended by the National Science Foundation is being used by our grade 7 and 8 students. The program is being used to prepare our students for NYS test in June 2001. Edition are being prepared to take the H.S. Math Regents 1 one year earlier.