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    Rockford Middle School will become a STEM Magnet School with an emphasis on environmental studies for the 2011-12 school year. The school will offer an environmental theme incorporating subjects of interest to students through integrated instructional methods. This may include working with an environmental specialist, student-led projects, and applying theory to real-world practice. The goal is to connect STEM and the environment by "unplugging" students from screens and connecting them to nature to correctly live in the world.

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    Rockford Middle School will become a STEM Magnet School with an emphasis on environmental studies for the 2011-12 school year. The school will offer an environmental theme incorporating subjects of interest to students through integrated instructional methods. This may include working with an environmental specialist, student-led projects, and applying theory to real-world practice. The goal is to connect STEM and the environment by "unplugging" students from screens and connecting them to nature to correctly live in the world.

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    Rockford Middle School will become a STEM Magnet School with an emphasis on environmental studies for the 2011-12 school year. The school will offer an environmental theme incorporating subjects of interest to students through integrated instructional methods. This may include working with an environmental specialist, student-led projects, and applying theory to real-world practice. The goal is to connect STEM and the environment by "unplugging" students from screens and connecting them to nature to correctly live in the world.

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    We have changes occurring at Rockford Middle School for the 2011-12 school year.

    Rockford Middle School will become a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Magnet School, with an emphasis on environmental studies. The Minnesota Department of Education defines magnet schools as a public school that offers a curricular emphasis or theme that meets all state academic standards. There are currently 73 magnet schools in Minnesota that offer a variety of themes. website. Rockford Middle School Center for Environmental Studies will offer an More specific information regarding Minnesota Magnet programs can be found on the MDE

    environmental theme, incorporating subjects of interest in students and instructional methods integrated into those subjects. This intensive, focused study may include working directly with an environmental specialist, directing a student-led project, and incorporating theory into real-world practice. So what is the connection between STEM and the environment? Dewey from his book The School and Society: To quote John

    Experience [outside the school] has its geographical aspect, its artistic and its literary, its scientific and its historical sides. it.
    Environmental education focuses on how to live correctly in the world. Howard

    All

    studies arise from aspects of the one earth and the one life lived upon

    Gardner, professor of education at Harvard University, proposed seven different intelligences in children and adults: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial,

    bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, and intrapersonal.


    was added to the list: naturalist intelligence, or nature smart.

    Recently, an eighth

    Todays students are digital natives: the use of the internet and gadgets is part of their daily lives. The upshot is, our society may be, in a sense, de-natured, with the Internet and other electronics replacing nature in our lives. Our mission at Rockford

    Middle School Center for Environmental Studies for the 2011-12 school year will be to unplug our students from screens and plug them into nature.

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