By Jonathan Heiles, HS Science
The First Pass course focuses on developing tools to to get a foundation in a range of counterintuitive ideas from advanced math and science. The semester started with practicing this method through multiple approaches…
By Jonathan Heiles, high school and middle school science
Just about a year ago students in the Astronomy class gave presentations about planets in the solar system. Knowing that Lucy Lin ’15 was planning on studying astronomy in college, I…
By Jonathan Heiles, HS and MS science
Students in the Advanced Experimental Science course are pursuing experimental answers to questions they find engaging. Some of the questions are new and other build on work done by previous Poughkeepsie Day School…
A report by Jonathan Heiles, science teacher, on a field trip-based geology course that is open to 10th – 12th graders
With the opening of the Library branch on Boardman Road, the Geology class gained access to a new outcrop.…
