by kristi | Jan 19, 2021 | Fifth Grade, LIttleton 5th & 6th Grade, News & Events, Our Students, Primary Years Programme, Sixth Grade, Student Work
By Tari St.Marie, 5th and 6th Grade Teacher What do you do when the world hijacks your unit of inquiry? It started quietly enough, during our unit of inquiry into Revolutions. My fifth and sixth grade students asked: Are all revolutions good? What if the revolution...
by kristi | Dec 19, 2018 | Growing Learners, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, Littleton, LIttleton 3rd & 4th Grade, News & Events, Our Students
Mackintosh Academy Littleton third and fourth graders recently completed their “Where We Are in Time and Place” International Baccalaureate unit of inquiry, focusing on the history of Ancient Greece. This unit invited them to explore how the people, beliefs and values...
by kristi | Sep 24, 2018 | Community, Core Values, Global Action, Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Our Team
Mackintosh Academy in Littleton, Colorado became the first independent school in the state to be named a U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools award honoree and one of only six nonpublic schools nationally to receive this award. Several students, along...
by kristi | Apr 20, 2017 | Compassionate Hearts, Core Values, Global Action, Growing Learners, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, News & Events, Our Students
By Sharon Muench, Mack Littleton IB Programme Coordinator The International Baccalaureate Programmes’ framework nurtures not only students, but citizens of the world. Students are taught to be active and engaged participants in the classroom. They are not simply...
by Darsa Morrow | Dec 15, 2016 | International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
Get ready to “blast off” as we get a glimpse into the “out of this world” unit the Mack-Boulder second graders just completed. Their IB Unit of Inquiry was Space Exploration with the central idea, “Exploration Drives Invention and Discovery.” Teachers Jenny Bolch and...