It also defines guidelines for students to follow when creating home pages and MUSEs. Its enrollment is about 300 students. Class size varies from about 14 to 24. Because Baker is a demonstration school, university students observe and help in classrooms daily. Content and process skills are integrated throughout the curriculum, even though individual teachers and classes may be identified as science, technology, social studies, or other subject areas.
Students construct their knowledge in a collaborative environment.
In the past three years, BDS students in kindergarten through 8th grade have designed and published many projects using technology. Older students have constructed hypermedia presentations about the environment, science fact-myth, Pompeii, Roman architecture, mammals, chemistry, and physics. These projects have been used internally for curriculum integration and cross grade peer teaching and collaboration. This year BDS is extending the cross grade peer teaching and collaboration to include student exchanges in rural and urban areas. In order to facilitate this, NLU needed to enhance its internet resources.