by Darsa Morrow | Apr 6, 2016 | Community, Global Action, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students
Mackintosh Littleton 6th grade student Harvey Rainwater, son of Mackintosh Academy board member Therese Rainwater, tied for 6th place in the State of Colorado National Geographic Geography Bee held in Denver, Colorado, April 1, 2016. 104 Colorado students...
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 | Mar 16, 2016 | Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students
Children are born natural scientists with an insatiable thirst for information. The evidence of this is abundant from infancy to age three where exploration often involves tasting or touching just about everything; this is expanded upon by the ages of inquiry where...
by Darsa Morrow | Feb 3, 2016 | Community, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts
“Where are the chairs?” As participants entered the Creating Innovators Workshop last week at Mack Boulder, it was apparent from the beginning that it would be no ordinary affair with someone standing at a podium while lecturing a passive, seated audience. For over...
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....