by Darsa Morrow | Apr 6, 2016 | Littleton, Littleton 7th & 8th Grade, Student Work
The Middle Schoolers at Mack-Littleton participated in a simulation of a Voyage to Mars at the Challenger Learning Center in Colorado Springs. During their space mission, the 7th and 8th graders worked as scientists and engineers on a voyage that takes place in the...
by Darsa Morrow | Apr 6, 2016 | Keen MInds, Littleton 7th & 8th Grade, Student Work
Thanks to Patty Weston’s initiative, Steve Spangler (America’s Science Teacher) announced that a team of Mackintosh Academy-Littleton 7th graders has been chosen to be one of 3 teams (out of 90!) to participate in an egg drop competition at Coors Field...
by Darsa Morrow | Apr 4, 2016 | Growing Learners, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
It wasn’t even St. Patrick’s Day when Mack-Littleton families, alumni, and neighbors gathered on Sunday, March 6th for a Community Salad and to celebrate green-a greenhouse bursting with organic lettuces, a group of seventh and eighth graders inspired to...
by Darsa Morrow | Jan 20, 2016 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
What is that blue line? Why does it drop down for two days and then go up again for five? And what does azimuth mean? These and other questions lit up the room as students and, later, their parents explored the data generated by our solar panel monitoring system....
by Darsa Morrow | Oct 4, 2015 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
In one viewing experience, I cheered; I shouted at the screen; I rolled my eyes; I cheered again, and maybe I even teared up a little. No, I wasn’t watching a football game… I was pre-screening the surprise Sundance Film Festival hit, Most Likely To Succeed. After...
by Darsa Morrow | May 5, 2015 | Growing Learners, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
Two weeks ago, our daughter Greta and her classmates undertook a Littleton Campus rite of passage: the 5/6 field trip to Washington, DC. Mack families approach the cost of the trip in different ways – some parents underwrite it, some kids raise funds, some families...