Our first Quests for the 2022-2023 School Year!
Quests are real-world projects to master 21st-century skills.
Usually lasting four- to six-weeks, each Quest includes a series of challenges bound by a compelling narrative and is designed to deliver 21st century skills while simultaneously incorporating traditional topics like science, social studies, and history.
This year we’re kicking things off with four awesome Quests!
elementary studio
Harry Potter Quest
Welcome to the world of wonder and curiosity!
The Forest School has been chosen as a Satellite Site of Hogwarts! This session you will be led through a new course of study weekly, each with its own obstacles and difficulties for you to overcome. These courses include: Symbology, Herbology, Potions & Charms, and Quidditch & Flying.
Heroes will be sorted into houses and work within your house to win the coveted "House Cup". The House Cup will be awarded to the House that not only completes all challenges requested of you throughout your course of studies, but also respects one another, supports their housemates, considers before acting, and offers insightful queries to the task.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. We do so look forward to seeing which house shall triumph.
Let the journey begin!
middle school studio
Your Brain vs. the Wild Quest
Welcome, Young Neuroscientists, to the Brain vs. Wild lab!
This session you’ll be exploring the ins-and-outs of the human body with a special focus—the developing adolescent brain. Through riveting research and extraordinary experimentation, you’ll work your way through all the necessary components for truly protecting and fueling your body. Throughout the weeks of learning and exploration into the depths of neuroscience, you’ll be picking up knowledge, asking questions, discovering the inner-workings of the brain, and applying these things to the understandings that you gain about the body and the brain.
As you work through each experiment (on your own self!), ask yourself how this knowledge can apply to the experiment you’ll run at the Exhibition. Always coming back to the adolescent brain, the developing prefrontal cortex creates difficulty well into your 20s, so consider how the body’s functions balance against a developing brain.
So, now, it falls to you! Create! Explore! Educate!
high school studio
Neophyte Neuroscience Quest
Neophyte neuroscientists, welcome to the lab!
Here you will explore the brain versus the wild world we live in. Adrenaline will run high throughout the course of this Quest…and that’s exactly the point!
We’ll be hyper-focused on the stress quotient - the Fight, Flight, or Freeze - if you will. Throughout the weeks of learning and exploration into the depths of neuroscience, you’ll be picking up knowledge, asking questions, discovering the inner-workings of the brain, and applying these things to the understandings that you gain about the body and the brain.
For this Quest, we will ask you to consider the way the body was built and the purposes for which it was designed as well as the basics of the fight or flight response in the body’s HPA Axis. Then, heroes will consider how times have changed, how information has continued to be disseminated more regularly and rapidly over time, and the amount of knowledge (and stress) available to us in this 21st-century world.
Buckle up, scientists, you are in for a treat!
spark studio
Build the Tribe Quest
Learning to Live Together is an essential skill.
Intentionally practicing living together nurtures ethical values and spirituality in learners that will help them strengthen their identity and critical thinking. Team building and working together on projects develops heroes’ ability to make well grounded decisions, to respect and work with people of other cultures and religions, and to foster their individual and collective responsibilities in a global community.
Session 1 will be focused on Building the Tribe through games, sharing ideas and taking those ideas to create fun and meaningful challenges. The time has come to explore what makes learning fun.